Rank #2715
Jeff Lawson
Net worth $1.4B
software · United States
- Born
- Jun 21, 1977
- Age
- 48
- Source
- software
- Residence
- San Francisco, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Michigan
Net worth over time
Biography
- Jeff Lawson is a cofounder of Twilio, a cloud communications platform that adds messaging, voice and video to web and mobile apps.
- Lawson launched his first Internet startup while he was at the University of Michigan and went on to become the first CTO of ticket reseller StubHub.
- The serial entrepreneur went on to work at Amazon, where he helped build the technology behind Amazon Web Services.
- Along with two friends, Lawson started Twilio in 2008 then took it public in 2016.
- He stepped down as CEO and and left the company's board in 2024.
- In 2024, Lawson acquired the satirical news site The Onion.
- Twilio's first customer was PhoneMyPhone.com, which allowed people to type their numbers into a website to ring their own cellphones.
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