Jim Franklin
CEO at SendGrid
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All Those E-mails From Pinterest Are Very Good For This Guy
About 40,000 Web applications use SendGrid, says its CEO -- and Boulder startup icon -- Jim Franklin. And none of it is spam because users sign up these e-mails, such as job openings, friend requests and the like. Franklin says it even coaches its customers on how to do e-mail so ... Read more »
EXCLUSIVE: Why SendGrid Got A Bum Rap For Firing Adria Richards Over Donglegate
SendGrid's CEO Jim Franklin, is a Boulder icon. Boulder is an extremely liberal/progressive city and like most Boulder residents, Franklin is the furthest thing from a sexist neanderthal. His wife has a PhD in science and he's the dad of an eight-year-old girl. He's an advisor to ... Read more »
Techie Fired After Tweeting About Men’s Comments
CEO Jim Franklin wrote on the company’s website that SendGrid agreed with Richards’ right to report the incident to Pycon staff, but not the way she reported it. “Her decision to tweet the comments and photographs of the people who made the comments crossed the line,” Franklin ... Read more »
Rachel Sklar On Adria Richards And SendGrid
Company CEO Jim Franklin claimed in a blog post that it was because Richards behaved inappropriately in tweeting the photo and accusation. He drew this distinction: "We understand that Adria believed the conduct to be inappropriate and support her right to report the incident to PyCon ... Read more »
SendGrid CEO Jim Franklin explains firing of Adria Richards
SendGrid CEO Jim Franklin has posted a blog offering his explanation of the Boulder company’s decision to fire an employee who set off an Internet firestorm, events that led to hackers attacking the company’s servers. As I posted yesterday, SendGrid publicly fired its technology ... Read more »
SendGrid raises $21M from Bessemer, Foundry, others to make automated e-mails painless
“E-mail is not a fun thing to deal with,” SendGrid CEO Jim Franklin told VentureBeat. “We alleviate the pain of dealing with e-mail.” The new funding round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with existing investors Foundry Group, Highway 12 Ventures, SoftTechVC, 500 Startups and ... Read more »
PyCon Incident: Two People Fired, DDOS Attack Launched Against SendGrid Site
On the same day, Jim Franklin, the CEO of SendGrid, announced in a blog post that Richards had been fired. “In light of the events over the last 48+ hours, it has become obvious that her actions have strongly divided the same community she was supposed to unite. As a result, she can no ... Read more »
SendGrid launches email marketing service that undercuts MailChimp & Constant Contact
“People that are not developers can create emails and take advantage of the same infrastructure we’re known for,” SendGrid CEO Jim Franklin told VentureBeat. “And we cost half as much or more as MailChimp” when clients send more than 25,000 emails per month. The two big differentiators ... Read more »
Labor Attorneys Agree: The Adria Richards Firing Will Be Hard to Defend
If SendGrid's CEO Jim Franklin had been in charge of the nuclear codes during the Cuban Missile Crisis, for instance, Orlando might be an irradiated wasteland instead of a magical simulacrum of Main Street U.S.A. Franklin defended Richards' firing in blog post on SendGrid's site... Read more »
Could downtown Denver be the next Silicon Valley?
Jim Franklin is the CEO of Boulder-based SendGrid Inc., which recently opened new offices downtown at 1451 Larimer St. The company's goal for its cloud-based e-mail infrastructure is to relieve businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom e-mail systems. (Photos by Helen ... Read more »
SendGrid Now Delivers One Percent of Global Email, Hits Seven Billion per Month
Jim Franklin, CEO, SendGrid, said: "2012 was an incredible year for us. We hit a number of remarkable milestones including nearly tripling the total volume of emails we delivered year over year and the volume we deliver monthly. We're expecting very strong growth for 2013. " "SendGrid is ... Read more »
Want To Get Your Startup Funded? Try Breaking Out The Booze
Before you spring for a few drinks or concert tickets for your favorite angel investor, be warned: fellow mentor and CEO of SendGrid Jim Franklin says, "Just so you know, we see that coming a mile away. " But Marcoullier did have a bigger point. Don't look at potential investors with ... Read more »
SendGrid Raises $21 Million Series B Round
Offloading a core service like transactional email management and delivery is a smart and simple choice," said Jim Franklin, CEO, SendGrid. "Today's funding validates our original vision and supports our global expansion plans as we continue to build out our team. " "This investment ... Read more »
SendGrid Launches on Windows Azure Enterprise Cloud Platform
" "Even in the era of the social web, email remains the bedrock communications channel, with millions of web applications relying on it to reach and retain their customers," said Jim Franklin, CEO, SendGrid. "Our availability within the Windows Azure cloud ecosystem makes it even easier ... Read more »
SendGrid and Standing Cloud Team to Provide Improved Email Service to Standing Cloud Customers
“We’re excited about the integration of this new functionality into our service.” “We’re pleased to make SendGrid easily available to even more customers as part of Standing Cloud’s extended service options,” said Jim Franklin, CEO, SendGrid. “It’s clear that SendGrid and Standing Cloud ... Read more »
Built In Denver Releases the 2012 Colorado Digital Startup Report
The funds we raised last year gave us the ability to scale our business to meet growing global demand and aggressively accelerate hiring and invest in our product, developer relations and customer support," said Jim Franklin, CEO SendGrid. Built In Denver is an online community for ... Read more »
Zuora Turns 50 as the Subscription Economy Comes of Age
This provides the information we need to really understand how to run all facets of our business," said Jim Franklin, CEO of SendGrid. "We congratulate the Zuora engineering team on its 50th product release. " "Zuora's flexibility and ease-of-use allowed us launch breakthrough reporting ... Read more »
SendGrid Hits Europe With Hubs in London & Frankfurt
“2012 was an incredible year for us,” says Jim Franklin, CEO of SendGrid. “We hit a number of remarkable milestones including nearly tripling the total volume of emails we delivered year-over-year and the volume we deliver monthly. We’re expecting very strong growth for 2013.” “Demand ... Read more »
Insurance 2013
"—Jim Franklin, VP Enterprise Performance Management and General Manager, Crystal Ball Global Business Unit, Oracle Corporation. Rank: #183558 in Books Published on: 2009-04-27Original language: EnglishNumber of items: 1Dimensions: 9.37" h x 1.02" w x 6.42" l, 1.17 pounds Binding: ... Read more »
SendGrid Goes Mobile for App Developers
"SendGrid has long been on the forefront of introducing new services and products ahead of the market demand curve, and today's integrations with leading MBaaS providers is no different," said Jim Franklin, CEO, SendGrid. "MBaaS is quickly replacing the traditional server-side stack as a ... Read more »
