Damien Tanner

Um,

And then we can just post an API request and say, push this message to all the clients.

It was a simple idea, and we took it seriously and built it into a pretty formidable dev tool used by millions of developers and still use a lot today.

And we eventually exited the company to MessageBird, who are a kind of European Twilio competitor.

Actually, at one point, we nearly sold the company to Twilio.

That would have been a very different timeline

The bulk of that we raised later on from Bolton.

The first round was maybe half a million.

And it started out the agency, so we built the first version in the agency.

It would have been a great experience to work.

with the team at Twilio.

There's incredible people who've worked at Twilio and moved through Twilio.

I don't know.

I haven't calculated it, but we didn't sell because the offer wasn't good enough in our minds.

It was a bit of a low ball and it was all stock.

And in hindsight, the stock hasn't gone very well.

Turns out it was a good financial decision, but I would have loved that experience.

Twilio became the kind of OG for DevRel and DevCommunity.

How we got to know them is we did a lot of combined events with them and hackathons with them.

That was a fun time.