messaging topics by TJ Thinakaran
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…
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…
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…
A startup is a lonely endeavor that never works alone. It works with a dominant player, whether in an app store like a marketplace or…
Once it has won over the geeks and early adopters, new technology needs to win the heart of the everyday user. You do that by…
When it comes to bandwidth, 5G is like having your cake and eating it too, in this case the cake is double chocolate, no fat*.…