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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.

Full episode with transcription can be found here.

Startup Exits is brought to you by StartupSoft. New episodes every month, subscribe for more.

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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.

Full episode with transcription can be found here.

Startup Exits is brought to you by StartupSoft. New episodes every month, subscribe for more.

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