Jim Franklin

CEO, SendGrid

http://celeriter.blogspot.com/
Boulder, Colorado, United States

Employee
Member since January 16, 2012

VEQ: What is this?

interested in all things Cloud, SaaS, API and email as well as sailing, landrovering, trailrunning, teleskiing Quote_down

About Jim

Work/education

Activities

Company profile(s)

Following

I am a(n):

CEO

Companies I've founded or co-founded:

webfamilies.com

Startups I worked for:

Decisioneering, Inc.

If you are an entrepreneur, why?

unemployable

My favorite startups:

manpacks.com

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?

Change

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make?

focusing on the tech/product rather than on the people

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

1. It's all about the people
2. People
3. People

Employee

Working for SendGrid as CEO

Jim voted for Tagwhat in the competition Vator Splash SF (February 2013)

Jim started following Tagwhat

Jim was mentioned in a VatorNews article "Today's Entrepreneur: Jim Franklin"

Jim was mentioned in a VatorNews article "SendGrid CEO sees 10x growth in emails in two years"

Jim was mentioned in a VatorNews article "SendGrid CEO Jim Franklin talks to Bambi Francisco"

Jim recommended Moblify

Jim wrote a recommendation for Moblify

Jim was mentioned in a VatorNews article "SendGrid gets $21M in capital, led by Bessemer"

Jim started following JetJaw

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