Calvin French-Owen, Segment

Calvin, Peter, Ilya, and Ian built the prototype that became Segment in Dec 2012, after 24 months of trying different ideas and spending $500k. Eight years later, @Twilio acquired Segment for $3.2B. Segment now helps 25,000 companies get customer data into >800 different tools to analyze it. They process roughly a trillion API calls per month. Hear from Calvin about their founding journey, and some of the great stories illustrating how Segment moves fast. Plus, hear how Calvin thinks about levels of insight in searching for new startup ideas.

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