Vendor

Twilio

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Headquarters
San Francisco, California, USA
Founded
2008
Ticker
NYSE:TWLO

Twilio was established in 2008 by Jeff Lawson, Evan Cooke and John Wolthuis. It provides programmable communication tools, delivered as cloud APIs, for making and receiving calls, sending and receiving text messages and similar functions. It is headquartered in San Francisco and trades on the NYSE as TWLO.

Leadership and size

Khozema Shipchandler became chief executive in January 2024, succeeding founder Jeff Lawson. Wikipedia gives revenue of $5.07 billion and 5,587 employees for 2025.

Marketing-related businesses

  • Segment, the customer data platform Twilio agreed to acquire on October 12, 2020 (see the timeline entry).
  • SendGrid, an email delivery service that Wikipedia lists among Twilio’s subsidiaries.

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On the timeline

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Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Twilio (opens in a new tab) Other

    Founding, headquarters, listing, leadership, 2025 figures. Twilio's own about page could not be retrieved.

  2. Twilio: Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1, announcement of the Segment acquisition (SEC) (opens in a new tab) Regulatory filing ·

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