Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson: the next $60B, Engage, Segment acquisition & more + Who actually uses Oculus? | E1308

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.2 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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It was great to have Jeff back on the pod! But first, Producer Rachel gives some updates on TWIST Founder Meetups (01:54) and Jason talks a bit about Oculus (14:12). Then, Jeff Lawson from Twilio joins (24:42) to discuss their new mission to build the leading customer engagement platform, the launch of their new product Twilio Engage, lessons from scaling & their big acquisitions, San Francisco and more!

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0:00.0	Okay, everybody. We got a great show for you today. My pal, Jeff Lawson, the CEO of Twilio,
0:05.8	is joining the program for his fourth, one, two, three, fourth appearance, and his first one since
0:11.2	2019. We talk about building as a public company, growing Twilio to a $60 billion market cap,
0:18.0	their segment acquisition, and we talk about Twilio's new product, Twilio Engage, which they
0:23.5	just announced today. Thank you for giving us an exclusive. But first, producer Rachel and I are
0:28.8	going to talk about twist meetups and how you can get involved. We're doing meetups in New
0:33.1	York, Chicago, Boston. We're going to do them in Tokyo, London, everywhere, and they're going
0:38.5	really well and we want you involved. Then I'm going to talk about Oculus. I did a tweet. A lot of
0:43.5	people got feelings, a lot of people got upset. Well, it happens sometimes when I tweet,
0:47.5	and I tweeted, hey, people don't use their Oculuses after like the first week or two. Why? Well, I got
0:52.0	a lot of interesting answers, and I have some theories. We're going to get to it all today on an
0:56.2	amazing episode of this week in startups. Thanks for tuning in everybody. This week in startups is
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1:57.2	this week in startups meetups that we will be having in cities all over the world with me to talk
2:03.4	about it is the manager of our twist meetups. Her name is producer Rachel. Welcome back to the
2:09.2	program, producer Rachel. Hi, how are you? I am about to bring up the page for this we can start
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