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Jeff Lawson – How to Build a Platform - [Invest Like the Best, EP.158]
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My guest this week is Jeff Lawson, the Founder, and CEO of Twilio. Twilio is a 15-billion-dollar company offering a cloud communications platform to its customers. Twilio is used by customers like Lyft, Twitch, and Yelp to make communications in their products easy. Jeff and I talk about why it pays to be a platform, how to be a platform, and how to sculpt a company culture. This is a must-listen for anyone building a business whether it’s a tech business or not.
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Show Notes
– (First Question) – Company vowels and draw the owl
– Significance of API’s
– How non-software businesses can transition into the space
Agile way of working at ING Belgium (video)
– How they strategize their product build
– The idea of asking your developer and why it’s so important to them
– How they codified their business culture
– Parting advice for people building platforms
– Kindest thing anyone has done for Jeff
Learn More
For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.
Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub
Follow Patrick on Twitter at @patrick_oshag
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