E967: Twilio CEO & Co-Founder Jeff Lawson on growing Twilio to 160,000 customers & a billion-dollar run rate, innovating in a trillion-dollar market, learning from Bezos, strategic timing of Twilio’s IPO, the importance of focusing on customers over competition & always waking up with a Day 1 mindset
Episode notes
2:14 Starting Twilio
16:54 How did Twilio 1000x revenue?
20:57 Passing $1B in revenue
31:37 Why Twilio went public when they did
41:20 What makes Jeff Bezos special?