While we’re racing Towards Disrupt 2020, we’re keeping the Extra Crunch Live train going next week with a big entry as Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson joins us for a chat.
Lawson is known in the tech industry for helping with institutionalization API -delivered digital services, a business model variant that has become increasingly popular in recent years. Twilio has grown to be a giant in and of itself, valued at more than $ 37 billion today after going public in 2016.
As always, we’ll be answering some questions from the audience, so bring your best material.
In view of Twilio, The position of API-focused startups is remarkable everywhere. API-based startups mention Twilio and Stripe as the two companies they mimic, albeit usually with a different focus: “We’re building this Twilio for X. ”
The power of API-driven startups with usage-based pricing and near-SaaS-like gross margins is something that private investors have surely noticed and are betting on.
But there is still more to be done Twilio and Lawson as just that one topic, so we’ll also spend time thinking about when the time is right for a private company to go public, how his life has changed since going public, and what advice he has for the company Could have super-late-stage startups that seemingly cannot get out of their wings into the public markets. And why, strange duck among most tech celebrities, he doesn’t seem to be making a lot of angel investments.
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