I completely disagree with your comment about perceived distance from ATT.
When I was using Twilio to write a telephony-capable web app, my main motivation was that Twilio made it dead simple to get from zero to phone calls. No sales people, no digging through stale brochure sites, no "fill out this form and someone will call you" enterprise sales process -- just provide a credit card, get an API key, read the docs. They totally empowered me as a developer to jump right into an area which traditionally takes a lot of inside knowledge to navigate.
I've met some Twilio folks before, and I went to their hackathon/startup weekend event a while back -- the sense I get is that they are strong on culture and have solid, core definitions about who they are. I understand the "stink will rub off" concern, and that is definitely something which has happened to other startups, but the Twilio team has earned my trust and I would continue recommending them.
When I was using Twilio to write a telephony-capable web app, my main motivation was that Twilio made it dead simple to get from zero to phone calls. No sales people, no digging through stale brochure sites, no "fill out this form and someone will call you" enterprise sales process -- just provide a credit card, get an API key, read the docs. They totally empowered me as a developer to jump right into an area which traditionally takes a lot of inside knowledge to navigate.
I've met some Twilio folks before, and I went to their hackathon/startup weekend event a while back -- the sense I get is that they are strong on culture and have solid, core definitions about who they are. I understand the "stink will rub off" concern, and that is definitely something which has happened to other startups, but the Twilio team has earned my trust and I would continue recommending them.