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Twilio’s Jeff Lawson: an evangelist for software developers

The day after Lehman Brothers collapsed, Jeff Lawson sat in the office of a venture capitalist who liked his idea for a voice messaging program but couldn’t commit to an investment. “Super interesting, but sorry, no,” Lawson recalls the investor saying. Together with his co-founders, Evan Cooke and John Wolthuis, Lawson self-funded the company’s modest costs and took no salary. Read More...

The day after Lehman Brothers collapsed, Jeff Lawson sat in the office of a venture capitalist who liked his idea for a voice messaging program but couldn’t commit to an investment. “Super interesting, but sorry, no,” Lawson recalls the investor saying. Together with his co-founders, Evan Cooke and John Wolthuis, Lawson self-funded the company’s modest costs and took no salary.

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