Jeff Lawson, software developer turned CEO of Twilio, creates a new playbook for unleashing the full potential of software developers in any organization, showing how to help management utilize this coveted and valuable workforce to enable growth, solve a wide range of business problems, and drive digital transformation.
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How can you compete in the digital economy? Ask your developer.
From banking and retail to insurance and finance, every industry is turning digital, and every company needs the best software to win the hearts and minds of customers.
The landscape has shifted from the classic build vs. buy question, to one of build vs. die.
Companies have to get this right to survive. But how do they make this transition?
Developers are the creative workforce who can solve major business problems and create hit products for customers — not just grind through rote tasks. Most companies treat developers like digital factory workers without really understanding what software developers are able to contribute.
From Google and Amazon, to one-person online software companies — companies that bring software developers in as partners are winning.
Adopt the Ask Your Developer mindset
Take advantage of an underutilized asset that already exists in your company.
- Unleash the tremendous untapped creativity and brainpower inside your software teams.
- Understand developers and how to motivate them.
- Invest in your developers' success.
The Ask Your Developer mindset helps you show up as much more than just a code monkey.
- Live up to your potential as a full, talented, creative professional.
- Be a valuable part of the strategic conversation.
Jeff Lawson
Jeff Lawson is co-founder and CEO of Silicon Valley-based Twilio, one of the world’s fastest growing technology companies. A lifelong software developer, Jeff founded Twilio in 2008 with the belief that empowering developers was key to unlocking innovation within nearly every kind of business. Millions of software developers and hundreds of thousands of companies use Twilio’s platform to add communications to the websites and apps you use daily.
Jeff is a serial entrepreneur having been the founder of Versity.com and NineStar, and founding CTO of StubHub prior to Twilio, as well as one of the first product managers at Amazon Web Services.
He lives in San Francisco with his family and still makes time to hack on new software and hardware projects.
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