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

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For $79, you get 100,000 emails, and you're able to control your own IP address. Controlling your IP address is a big deal. For our free or lower tier plans, you have a shared IP, where you might be on a cluster with a hundred other companies. Receivers such as Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo don't trust that number.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo! I’d bet if one is disciplined about investing here you’d see significantly better pricing than chasing deals in the overly competitive Bay Area corridors. Seattle has its patrons.