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SendGrid raised $131 million in a successful IPO but the founders aren't the big financial winners
The tech industry was watching SendGrid's IPO for a few reasons. For one, SendGrid is the first com…
Julie Bort
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Here's The Real Reason SendGrid Fired The Woman Who Complained About 'Dongle' Jokes
Blum told the story of how Richards grew upset that the word "porn" was used in a joking manner in …
Julie Bort
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Fired SendGrid Developer Adria Richards: There's 'Good To Be Found In This Situation'
Richards says that there is some good to be found in the situation, and discusses how Donglegate "h…
Megan Rose Dickey
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TechStars Says This Is Why Hardly Any Of Its Companies Fail
"People talk about (allies), but it’s real and it’s so important," Rae says. "I think that’s one of…
Megan Rose Dickey
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$7.2 billion Twilio is spending $2 billion to buy one of its publicly-traded partners
SendGrid, which is based in Denver, sells an email marketing platform that enables its customers to…
Becky Peterson
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Twilio surges 6% after it agrees to acquire Segment for $3.2 billion
This marks Twilio's eighth acquisition since its founding in 2008, and its seventh acquisition sinc…
Matthew Fox
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DigitalOcean, an upstart cloud rival to Amazon, is bringing on a new CEO just a year after the last one started - and it has a new CFO, too
Spruill acknowledges that since much of the leadership team has seen so many new additions in the p…
Rosalie Chan
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Shares of $9 billion cloud communications company Twilio stock soars 34 percent after reporting a huge beat on earnings
In addition, Twilio launched new products like Twilio Pay, an API which allows developers to secure…
Rosalie Chan
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The CEO of a $740 million email company that just had an IPO explains what it takes to go public
"It's been insane but also insanely fun," Dholakia said by phone of the pre-IPO process. "What's ha…
Graham Rapier
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The Foundry Group director who's funded Fitbit and Zynga explains why market size is the most overrated factor for VCs investing in early-stage startups
Really good investors and entrepreneurs understand that the path to success is "a combination of en…
Sherin Shibu
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$45.5 billion cloud communications company Twilio is reportedly getting ready to acquire data startup Segment for $3.2 billion
Months after Segment laid off 10% of its staff due to the coronavirus, Twilio is set to acquire the…
Keerthi Vedantam
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This startup wants to turn the cloud software business on its head with a new site that encourages customers to share how much they're paying
Instead, pricing stories give businesses a sense for what others are paying, while offering helpful…
Nick Bastone
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Hackers target Google Docs, Microsoft Sway to steal user credentials
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Cybersecurity researchers on Friday said they have identified a new type o…
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This CEO explains how he turned a tool he made for newbie programmers into a product used by over a million developers and backed by Microsoft's VC fund and Andreessen Horowitz
Back in 2014, RapidAPI founder and CEO Iddo Gino had helped organize World Hackathon Day in Tel Avi…
Rosalie Chan
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The 25 best-paying small companies, according to employees
This list of best-paying small companies from job-hunting site Comparably shows that good salaries …
Julie Bort
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One of PagerDuty's earliest investor shares why he went big on the IT-management company before it reached $1.76 billion
Read more: Investors used to balk at startups for software developers - but after Microsoft bought …
Becky Peterson
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Rachel Sklar: The Firing Of Adria Richards Looks Like Kneejerk Appeasement To The Troll Armies
Because Adria made a judgment call and look how crazily she got burned. Anyone who thinks that wome…
Rachel Sklar
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A Joke About Dongles Led To Two People Losing Their Jobs And A Huge Mess For The Tech World
In a statement, SendGrid said, "Effective immediately, SendGrid has terminated the employment of Ad…
Kevin Smith
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MORGAN STANLEY: Enterprise software companies like Salesforce and Workday could double in value by 2020
That strong topline growth, combined with the improving efficiencies inherent in subscription softw…
Becky Peterson
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The Female Tech Community Responds To 'Donglegate'
This resulted in one of the guys, a mobile engineer at Play Haven, getting fired from his job and s…