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

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It can be deceptively easy to set up your own, SMTP server, to send email on behalf of that app. That why we offer a price point where you own your own IP address, and you can control your own destiny. That pricing scales up with volume, and it's pennies per thousands of emails sent, a very low cost. That was the magic formula.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. It’s certainly food for thought.

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