Jeff Lawson Built Twilio. Mentors Helped Him Make It Better.

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How mentors inspired Jeff Lawson to make changes at Twilio, the cloud communications giant: They “got me off my ass.”

In Personal Board of Directors, top business leaders talk about the people they turn to for advice, and how those people have shaped their perspective and helped them succeed.

Previous installments from the series areJeff Lawson worked 11 months without a paycheck before he and friends launched cloud-communications startup Twilio Inc. in 2008. By 2019, the chief executive was a billionaire.

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