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Co-founding Twilio in 2008 and scaling it to $4 billion in annual revenue, Lawson built the API infrastructure that powers customer communications for Uber, Airbnb, and Netflix — then codified the developer-as-power-broker philosophy in a bestselling book.
Jeff Lawson is the Founder and CEO of Inertia, his current venture, after co-founding Twilio in 2008 and serving as its CEO until 2024.
Under his leadership, Twilio grew into a publicly traded cloud communications platform powering voice, messaging, and authentication APIs for companies including Uber, Airbnb, and Netflix. Lawson is the bestselling author of Ask Your Developer.
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