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

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Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. He said, “I feel so bad. Jeff : I felt really bad, because you plan way ahead. For real, why is the developer market bigger today? He’s the only CEO that ever called.

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

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How should startups decide which customer segment to focus on? * How should startups think about implementing partnerships? There was a small startup scene. Rob Gonzalez: And so, a lot of people that were doing computer science in Williamstown were thinking about startups back even in the late nineties.

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PR for Startups : Interview with PR Expert Julija Jegorova

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I was planning to become a war correspondent, as was my role model and inspiration Anna Politkovskaya , but when the time came and I was invited to join a group of journalists from a very reputable broadcasting team to go to Palestine in 2010, when I was still at university, unfortunately, I had to reconsider my life choices.