Jeff Lawson
$1.56B
as of 06/13/26
About Jeff Lawson
Jeff Lawson is a cofounder of Twilio, a cloud communications platform that adds messaging, voice and video to web and mobile apps.
Lawson launched his first Internet startup while he was at the University of Michigan and went on to become the first CTO of ticket reseller StubHub.
The serial entrepreneur went on to work at Amazon, where he helped build the technology behind Amazon Web Services.
Along with two friends, Lawson started Twilio in 2008 then took it public in 2016.
He stepped down as CEO and and left the company's board in 2024.
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United States of AmericaSource of wealth
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San Francisco, CaliforniaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
06/21/77 (age 48)Number of children
2Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of MichiganSelf-made
self-madeJeff Lawson’s fortune is worth
26K
troy ounces of gold
24K
median U.S. household
16K
median U.S. income
0.031%
U.S. credit card volume
0.006%
GDP of the United States
0.005%
United States debt
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Twilio's first customer was PhoneMyPhone.com, which allowed people to type their numbers into a website to ring their own cellphones.
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