Sendbird Powers About 100 Million Monthly Active Chat Users
John Kim · 1751 SendBird Messaging SDK Sitting on $100m Cash, $20m in ARR · May 10, 2020 · at 5:14
John Kim, co-founder and CEO of Sendbird, describes the scale of monthly active users engaging through Sendbird's messaging platform.
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“And today we currently power about a hundred million users that chat through our platform every month.”
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