After nearly 11 years leading from its infancy to the world’s leading Customer Data Platform, today is my last day at Twilio Segment. Starting Monday I will be working full-time on , focused on permanent carbon removal via bio-oil sequestration. /1
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Segment’s first two failed ideas were mine, so I’m incredibly grateful to have had my best friends , and as co-founders. Their idea to make open source analytics.js into a product sounded insane to me, but they couldn’t have been more right. /2
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From that brutal analytics.js argument I lost in December 2012 to Segment’s $3.2B acquisition by Twilio and to incredible growth this past year accelerating to hundreds of millions in revenue, I’m incredibly grateful I had the opportunity to work with amazing sharp leaders /3
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like Steve Davito, Jodi Alperstein Zhenya Loginov, Kathryn Murphy, Adriana Roche, Sandy Smith, Vas Natarajan, Sue Barsamian, Will Gaybrick, Miles Grimshaw, Kim Hammonds, Rob Ward and . /4
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An extra special thanks to folks like Raphael Parker, Jenn Boyce, and who made a bet on us at the very beginning. /5
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Thank you to the 1000+ teammates who made Segment an incredible success so far, and even more importantly, an incredible place to learn and grow over the past 11 years. /6
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Twilio Segment is just getting started. First party data continues to explode in volume, value and complexity, with new regulations like CCPA and GDPR. It’s painful to leave such an amazing team and market, but the climate demands attention, and there isn’t time to spare. /7
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Four years ago I helped start with my friends and who I met while they worked at Planet with my wife . /8
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Shaun’s breakthroughs two years ago led us to bio-oil sequestration as a new carbon removal pathway. /9
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Things have accelerated abruptly: last year Charm delivered 5,450 tons CO₂ removals, a drop in the bucket against 50 billion tons of emissions last year, but a surprising 90% of all permanent carbon removals delivered globally! /10
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We have a long way to go on scale-up alongside an incredible ecosystem of colleagues like and at Climate, and at , Rafael Broze and Elizabeth Wilmott at Microsoft, /11
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and at , and at , and at , and at , /12
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at , at LLNL, and at , and at , and at , , and at Spark Climate, /13
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, and at Lowercarbon Capital, and at Azolla Ventures, at KPCB, John Hering at Vy Capital, and many, many more. /14
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Starting on Monday I will be focused on scaling Charm as quickly as possible to help tackle the existential threat of excess CO₂ in our atmosphere. /15
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We are looking for an awesome Head of Sales and Head of Market Development & Policy to further accelerate our mission of repairing our climate. DM me if interested or you know someone! Start here if you want to learn more about Charm:
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