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

socalTECH

(Editor's note: we're crossposting a version of this interview between our Rocky Mountain site, techrockies.com, and our Southern California site, socalTECH.com). 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.

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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. 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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