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Disclosure: Steve Graham and I are both employees of Twilio, which offers a popular telephony API.

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Other partners include SnapLogic, cloud voice service company Twilio and mobile app developer service Appcelerator.

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Twilio provided the food and drinks, and pariSoma donated the wonderful space.

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Twilio says it has more than 50, 000 developers in its community, including GroupMe competitors Beluga and Fast Society.

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Thanks to a series of high-profile partnerships in the technology sector -- with Google, Palantir, Salesforce, Twilio and others-- Polaris was able to do just that.

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Lawson is a serial entrepreneur who worked at three startups before founding Twilio but said Twilio only provides tools, not advice on how to turn the resulting products into viable businesses.

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Dan Kaplan leads Product Marketing for Twilio.

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