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

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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. Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

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He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. Only guarantee for longevity is if you have options. This is certainly one of the big concerns I expressed above. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform. I would tend to agree.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. 4. .“… “Then we engage with the product and the entrepreneur and because we know these areas very well we don’t have to spend a lot of time understanding the market or understanding the customer.”.

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

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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. + Over time brands will realize that marketing into a closed system isn’t good for their long-term customer relationships.

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