Calvin French-Owen, Segment
At Fifty Years we back founders using technology to solve the world’s biggest problems: climate change, health, free speech, affordable housing and other global issues. These problems demand urgency. Moving fast means saving lives and creating a future worth living. Thus: SPEED 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.
SPEED · Calvin French-Owen, Peregrine Badger
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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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