Jeff Lawson, Evan Cooke, and John Wolthuis founded Twilio in 2008.
Twilio was created as a cloud communications company that let software developers add voice, messaging, and other communication functions to applications through web-based programming interfaces. Jeff Lawson, Evan Cooke, and John Wolthuis established the company in San Francisco, where the startup became part of the growing developer-tools and cloud-software ecosystem.
Twilio’s platform differs from a consumer messaging app: its customers are businesses and developers building communication features into their own products. The company launched publicly in 2008 and went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2016. Jeff Lawson became Twilio’s chief executive and one of its best-known public representatives. The company’s name is sometimes confused with “Twillio,” but the correct spelling has one l after the first syllable.