Tim Jenkins, founder of SendGrid: $3 billion sale to Twilio
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Tim Jenkins is a founder and ex-CTO of SendGrid, world's largest email delivery platform that sends as many emails per day as Twitter generates Tweets. SendGrid IPO'd in 2017 and was acquired by Twilio for $3 billion dollars in 2019.
On this episode of the Startup Exits Podcast, we chat with Tim about:
SendGrid's experience with TechStars. Product-market-fit. What makes a great CTO? Startup culture. Remote operations for startups. How startups go public. SendGrid's relationship with Twilio. Timing of startup exits. Exit strategy for startups.
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