Jeff Lawson – How to Build a Platform - [Invest Like the Best, EP.158]

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Colossus

Investing, Business, Technology

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

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

1:18 – (First Question) – Company vowels and draw the owl

5:26 – Significance of API’s

12:14 – How non-software businesses can transition into the space

17:50 - Agile way of working at ING Belgium (video)

18:38 – How they strategize their product build

23:27 – The idea of asking your developer and why it’s so important to them

33:02 – How they codified their business culture

45:12 – Parting advice for people building platforms

48:13 – Kindest thing anyone has done for Jeff

Learn More

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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

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome everyone, I'm Patrick O'Shaughnessy and this is Invest Like The Best.
0:08.6	This show is an open-ended exploration of markets, ideas, methods, stories, and of strategies
0:13.9	that will help you better invest both your time and your money.
0:17.2	You can learn more and stay up to date at InvestorFieldGuide.com.
0:24.6	Patrick O'Shaughnessy is the CEO of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management.
0:28.5	All opinions expressed by Patrick and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and do
0:32.9	not reflect the opinion of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management.
0:36.3	This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis
0:40.6	for investment decisions.
0:42.4	Clients of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management may maintain positions and the securities discussed
0:46.2	in this podcast.
0:49.6	I guess this week is Jeff Lawson, the founder and CEO of Twilio.
0:53.3	Twilio is a $15 billion company offering a cloud communications platform to its customers.
0:58.7	Twilio is used by customers like Lyft, Twitch, and Yelp to make communications in their
1:02.4	products easy.
1:03.8	Jeff and I talk about why it pays to be a platform, how to build a platform, and how to sculpt
1:08.3	a company's culture.
1:09.8	This is a must listen for anyone building a business whether it's a tech business or
1:13.1	not.
1:14.1	Please enjoy our conversation.
1:16.1	Jeff, it's kind of a random story how this conversation came to be, which was I was
1:22.0	trying to figure out who to study what companies to study when it came to learning about APIs.
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