Braze explicitly targets consumer-scale businesses rather than B2B platforms
Bill Magnuson · 1684 With $60M in ARR, How Braze Drives Serious Expansion Revenue on Old Cohorts · Mar 4, 2020 · at 13:03
Bill Magnuson, co-founder and CEO of customer engagement platform Braze, discusses the target market scale and positioning of the Braze platform.
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“We're not built to be a kind of B to B scale platform. You know, we sell primarily into consumer scale businesses.”
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