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

socalTECH

We spoke with Jim Franklin , the firm's CEO, to hear more about how the company went from an accelerator startup at TechStars just a few years ago, to now more than 100 employees spread across offices in Boulder; Colorado, Anaheim, California; Frankfurt; London, and elsewhere, to tackle the problems of transactional email. What is Sendgrid?

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. Interestingly it was same developers in both companies.

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

Both Sides of the Table

The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999. But what about the “fixed&# world (e.g. non-mobile).

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