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10 Learnings From Jeff Lawson (CEO Twilio) + Byron Deeter (Bessemer Ventures): “Adapt, Plan, Deliver”

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He joined StubHub as CTO, but didn’t get nearly as much equity as the other CTO — because he “wasn’t committed enough.” VCs didn’t think developers would buy anything. You can’t build a whole new product, but you can tweak what you have. ” A good reminder to us all.

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

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In 1995, while a high school student Rhode Island he was an early employee at Intelecom Data Systems, one of America’s first commercial internet service providers and website developers. We were part of the office of the CTO. Since he joined Netscape, he then co-founded Tellme Networks. And that was not a success.

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

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Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. How did they formulate and approach creating a new set of values with the 2 companies coming together? How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time?

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

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We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. One, we’ve got first party relationships with a number of enterprises like Marriott, United, American Airlines. That means we need new pricing models, we need to figure out new delivery mechanisms for our data, so on and so forth.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

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And in major hubs like San Francisco and New York, what we’re doing is helping create the vision for a more experiential space, almost like a cafe where they can come and go as they want, they can bring clients, they can bring customers. We’re already in this like a new gen.” This is a new workflow, isn’t it?