In 2016—the year it went IPO—Twilio had 36,000 customers paying it $270M to transmit messages. This was an eight-fold increase in revenue and a three-fold…
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How Interoperability Created a Unique 800 Million Dollar Acquisition – II
Twilio paid $800 Million to acquire ZipWhip. At 10x revenue, the valuation was high for the asset. As deals go, it wasn't the biggest in…
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How Interoperability Created a Unique 800 Million Dollar Acquisition – I
US customers sent 2.2 trillion text messages in 2020. In other words, the wireless operators have created a big party—one which application developers, marketers, and software companies…
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How Interoperability Made Texting a Big Deal