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The Third-Party API Economy
- Strong API-first businesses sit in this sweet spot: they provide mission critical but non-core functionality to their customers, like accepting payments, providing cloud security, or sending communications to customers.
from APIs All the Way Down by Packy McCormick
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- One of the most common refrains that API-first businesses hear is, “Oh Company X will just build that in-house,” and yet, they almost never do. It’s not for lack of resources. Facebook generated more profit in 2019 ($57 billion) than Twilio’s entire market cap ($51 billion). It’s that once they’re integrated into a customer’s product, API-first com... See more
from APIs All the Way Down by Packy McCormick
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- API-first companies are a subset of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies, with a few key distinguishing features:
from APIs All the Way Down by Packy McCormick
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