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Twilio: The First $100m+ ARR with Jeff Lawson, CEO/Co Founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

How sales worked, how pricing worked, how billboards work, and more. If you’re on text messaging, voice calls, video calls, authentication, even now wireless capabilities inside of apps, Twilio is an easy set of APIs that developers use to embed communications into their apps. That’s how you got a deal done.

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Solving Hard(ware) Problems

Point Nine Land

Software is also a lovely thing to scale. For one, we know that despite traditional VC wisdom that hardware is too hard, there’s plenty of evidence that solving big problems that involve hardware in some way can lead to really big outcomes. Hard problems = hard ware So why am I so interested in hardware now?