Just a few interesting sections from Twilio's Q2 2021 earnings call:
1. On IoT
"As you imagine, you've got an IoT humidifier, or truck, or garbage dumpster, or trombone, you don't want to have to remanufacture that thing every time you get better connectivity technology...
...You want to be able to continually silently upgrade it in the background. That's what Super SIM enables companies to do because their connectivity is not something that is set into the device, and it's something that they can continually evolve in the cloud."
2. Reddit as a reference customer
"So Reddit wanted to add a voice talk feature into their communities. And so they used Twilio Live to do that. And so those are -- that was one of the reference customers at the time of launch."
3. Flex must be growing well over 100%.
"I know we don't break it out separately, but if you looked at Flex independently, I think you'd look at its momentum and say it's one of the fastest-growing SaaS products on the market"
4. Contact center driving revenue
"we're seeing the contact center become as much more of a customer experience, customer engagement point. Creating great customer experiences is a driver of top line and it's becoming closer to the revenue side of the business."
5. Announcements
"Twilio Segment Journeys, allowing marketers to build customer journeys on top of the world’s #1 Customer Data Platform."
"Revenue of $668.9 million for the second quarter of 2021, up 67% year-over-year, including $46.6 million from Twilio Segment."
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Twilio is certainly not just a messaging API anymore, though that piece of the biz is still performing very well.
Layering on contact center, live voice, IoT through Super SIM, video, a customer data platform, toll-free messaging, etc., deepens customer relationships.
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I've recently taken a small position in Doximity (DOCS), violating my rule of waiting until at least the first earnings report for a recent IPO.
Here's how I'm thinking about it and the risks involved. Would love some pushback!
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1/ Doximity (a combo of doctor and proximity) started as a LinkedIn for doctors but has really evolved into more of a productivity suite for medical professionals.
Connecting with other physicians is important but the company also offers HIPAA compliant e-fax, voice dialer, etc
2/ Basically, Doximity does a lot of little things that help doctors save time and improve their lives.
The 1.8 million doctors using Doximity are the cornered resource. And the company monetizes that attention through advertising.
1/ Some random things I've learned about the auto industry value chain recently...
2/ Car dealerships typically don't have the capital to outright buy all of their inventory so vehicle manufacturers will provide "floorplan facilities".
This is a type of loan that allows dealerships to hold inventory and pay back the loan as cars get sold.
3/ The higher the inventory turnover, the less the dealership has to pay in interest expense and depreciation.
1/ "The map is not the territory" is a very interesting mental model.
The idea is that abstractions aren't the real thing.
Well, duh! But there are actually a lot of applications...
2/ An obvious one is that stocks are abstractions of businesses.
A stock is not a business.
Even the concept of a business is an abstraction.
No two businesses are the same. A business is just a collection of people doing things and making decisions for others (customers).
3/ The application is that when a stock price is extremely volatile (the abstraction), the underlying business is likely not nearly as volatile (the territory).
And we can take advantage of these dislocations (@ Mr. Market)
3/ What's interesting is that if you drill down on the "dominance" by each crypto for each exchange, the top 3 exchanges (Binance, Huobi and OkEx) all have 80%+ dominance from USDT (Tether).