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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service. If you think of Pinterest, one of our customers, every time content is pinned or re-pinned, an email is generated to let users know that is happening. Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. Large number of Players in Cloud Computing. A couple of the more interesting ones: Amazon EC2 Google App Engine Salesforce.com Force IBM’s Blue Cloud I would tend to agree.

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