A pioneer in text messaging, Stephanie Lashley is responsible for the operational, financial, and strategic management of Bandwidth’s text messaging products and leads a team…
Mobile operators charge companies to access their SMS networks. These charges, commonly known as pass-thru fees, are immune to the sender's purchasing power. In fact,…
An award-winning salesperson Nitya Kirat is also the author of the Amazon bestseller, “Winning Virtually: 10 Tiny Habits for BIG Virtual Selling Success.” His client…
Last week Beeper was acquired by Automattic in a deal valued at $125 million. We don’t know what this means for its FCC petition, but…
“Interoperability” is a long word to write and say. Yet it’s at the heart of any David vs. Goliath tech story. The success of any…
There is a classic adversarial interoperability play happening in messaging right now. It involves Beeper (the maker of Beeper Mini), Apple, and the FCC. Android…
Not only did Dallas native Lance Dacy train me to become a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), he helped me train some of the smartest…
In Messaging and Growth in the Pandemic, we unpacked the drivers of pandemic-led growth. We discussed why it was a one-time event, with little to…
When Tata Communications acquired Kaylera, I thought it would be a simple swap and a way to introduce a more global perspective. This was naïve.…
Much to the relief of industry insiders, Twilio is keeping its Segment business. Some feared that Twilio would bow to investor pressure, and that would…
The five companies I watch—Bandwidth, LinkMobility, Sinch, Upland, and Twilio—ended 2023 with $9.2 billion in revenues. Collectively, they are projected to end 2024 with a…
In a series of posts I call ‘the Klaviyo papers’ I wrote about Klaviyo’s business model. Klaviyo, like Attentive before it, and Twilio before it,…