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Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio

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Re: Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio

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WHOA!!! Callback! Who's this!?!

I'm Adam Washington. I was a couple of years behind you, but we bumped into each other socially a few times over the years. As a refresher, I was also the sophomore with the glasses in Shadiow's class that accidentally kicked over the trash can while trying to explain how graphs work. Back in high school, I thought you were the brightest and chillest guy on the planet. My first Linux install was because I overheard y…

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Re: Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio

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When we started Iron.io in 2010, there were basically 3 companies at every developer event driving the API-first message: Heroku, Sendgrid, and Twilio. Back then, most thought Heroku (as the Platform) was going to be the one ending up in the public markets. Then they got taken out and Twilio bought Sendgrid. Congrats to Twilio and team for the years of success!

I used iron.io for years. Sad story there I think but I don’t know the details. Seemed like Great service for years then it kind of fell off, the service still worked thankfully. But no new features, and support would take days.

Thanks for using us! We ended up selling the service to private equity, hence the slowdown in features and support. Was an awesome and fun business to build but running a 24/7/365 service just as all the cloud providers were adding similar products was a slog.
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