Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson Shares Why He’s Spending $3.2 Billion To Acquire Customer Data Startup Segment

  • Date: 12-Oct-2020
  • Source: Forbes
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:GCC
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Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson Shares Why He’s Spending $3.2 Billion To Acquire Customer Data Startup Segment

Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson says acquiring Segment will help Twilio users understand their own customers.

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Twilio is making its acquisition of fellow cloud computing company Segment official.

San Francisco-based Twilio announced early on Monday that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Segment for $3.2 billion in an all-stock deal. The company said the deal, was expected to close in Twilio's fourth fiscal quarter.

Forbes first broke the news of the pending acquisition on Friday.

In a joint interview with Forbes on Sunday night, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson described the deal as the next step for a service that's spent the last decade-plus “taking communications and breaking it down into building blocks” for developers to reach their business' customers.

“Communications was just the entry point for the real