Twilio

John Coogan

uses

"We use Twilio for our app where we want to be able to interface with an application via text message. Even though we could go and vibe code that, all of a sudden you're dealing with different mobile carriers and the cell networks and are they goin..."

"SendGrid and Twilio were the API building blocks to plug into your application to go send communications."

"Twilio being $4,000, which is a huge part of our SMS cost, which is another part of our product."

"There are four different layers of the AI stack. One is you have a phone, goes through Twilio, then you need to convert that phone call into digital."

"How do you connect it to the phone system, whether it's SIP trunking or Twilio? How do you make sure that that connection exists?"

Chris Koerner

mentioned

"If we want text reminders, we would want a Twilio API key. Twilio is basically the SendGrid for phone stuff. I don't want to mess with that. That's too much friction. We don't need email and text notifications at launch day."

Jason Lemkin

mentioned

"I didn't think Twilio would benefit from this. Jeff Lawson saw it when he was on this pod. He said, 'Agents are going to need more voice and more text.' So Twilio, which was the hipster's API for voice and data — when we all met Jeff, it became yo..."

This Week in Startups

mentioned

"Twilio shares are surging up through 31% to near 52-week highs after the company delivered a blowout Q2 2026 report. They have started to do a conversational layer and they're doing AI. They're turning this around because they have embraced AI fully."

"OpenRouter does for LLMs what Stripe does for money and what Twilio does for telecoms."

"The same way I might use Twilio for spinning up a phone number for somebody on our team, I'm going to use Agent Phone and give my agent its phone."

Y Combinator

mentioned

"Jeff Lawson at Twilio built that company from nothing to $4 billion in actual revenue, like stock up 390% since IPO. By all accounts, you know, smash rip roaring success."

"Everything you can think about really like Notion, Google Docs, HubSpot, Salesforce, Twilio, like you name it."

Peter Yang

mentioned

"I was like 'Hey, can we just have a live phone call instead?' And then I was like 'Okay, you got to connect Twilio. You got to do all this stuff.'"