Adria Richards speaks on women, men, and tech … but not a certain fired developer

March 27, 2013 10:34 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

In the week or so since she tweeted a picture of a joking developer that eventually resulted in his firing, her company SendGrid getting DDOS'd, her firing, and a host of sometimes-scary attacks online, she hasn't tweeted or blogged or spoken in public.

PlayHaven on fired sex-joke developer: It wasn’t just one issue

March 21, 2013 10:45 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Mobile gaming monetization company PlayHaven implies that it fired a developer for multiple issues, not just the sexual jokes made at the recent Python Conference that have stirred up a forest of controversy.

Breaking: Adria Richards fired by SendGrid for calling out developers on Twitter

March 21, 2013 9:24 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Editor's Pick The developer in question was fired by his employer, PlayHaven, after Richards posted his picture and a few details about what he said. VentureBeat broke the story last night.

SendGrid under DDOS attack after its developer evangelist complains about sexual jokes at PyCon

March 21, 2013 8:15 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Last night VentureBeat broke the story about a developer who was fired from his job at PlayHaven after being outted on Twitter for making sexual jokes during a conference. Today, the company where the person who outted him works is under a distributed denial of service attack.

Playhaven developer fired for sexual jokes after SendGrid marketer outs him on Twitter

March 20, 2013 9:05 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Editor's Pick A Playhaven game developer was fired after making sexual jokes in the audience during a keynote session at PyCon, a conference for Python developers. Now Adria Richards, a developer evangelist for SendGrid, is getting rape and death threats via Twitter.

10 Boulder startups we’re excited about

February 18, 2013 7:00 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Editor's Pick Boulder's startup scene is booming right now. Here are 10 innovative companies that exemplify what is happening there.

Codecademy adds API training with YouTube, NPR, Bit.ly, and 6 other services to help new devs build actual products

January 9, 2013 5:00 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Today Codecademy is launching a new partnership with nine companies to help budding developers learn APIs and create actual functioning sites, projects, and even products.

Cloud tag team: SendGrid & Twilio partner on email, SMS, & voicemail solutions for the enterprise

December 4, 2012 6:00 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Cloud-focused messaging startups SendGrid and Twilio have teamed up to empower SendGrid enterprise customers with a suite of messaging tools, including transactional emails, SMS, voicemails, and push notifications.

Dave McClure: hottest investments, favorite start-ups, biggest screwups, and clueless founders

August 24, 2012 10:12 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Dave McClure is one of the most prominent angel investors in Silicon Valley -- and possibly the world. His accelerator, 500 Startups, will fund its 500th company sometime this year. And no, in answer to "all the stupid questions," 500 Startups will not shut its doors after reaching that number.

He may also take the prize for most F-bombs per sentence of any investor.

SendGrid partners with Heroku, Engine Yard, & others on email management

July 25, 2012 9:32 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Email-management startup SendGrid has partnered with leading Platform-as-a-Service providers including Heroku, Engine Yard, and CloudBees, the company announced today.

SendGrid helps more than 60,000 web application companies and developers send all kinds of emails to their customers, including shipping notifications, …

On the ‘startup bus’ to Montreal, early-stage founders network and chase dreams

July 15, 2012 7:00 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Editor's Pick

It’s 11 p.m., I’m drinking a can of Molson, and the bus passengers are finally quieting down as we get closer to New York City, where we departed two days ago. Many founders from promising early-stage startups from around the …

SendGrid raises $21M from Bessemer, Foundry, others to make automated e-mails painless

January 17, 2012 6:00 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

E-mail infrastructure startup SendGrid has raised $21 million in its second round of funding and created a partnership with Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform to convince more enterprises to use its e-mail delivery solutions, the company announced today.

SendGrid helps more …