Startup exits are the most sought after events in Silicon Valley, but very few people get to experience them. On the Startup Exits Podcast we chat with founders that started, ran and sold a tech company to learn about how it all went down. This podcast is hosted by Andrew Vasylyk and produced by StartupSoft – visit www.startupsoft.com for more info and other great content.
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episode 2: Tim Jenkins, founder of SendGrid: $3 billion sale to Twilio
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.
Full episode with transcription can be found here.
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