Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson is Spending $3B to Acquire Segment

Twilio is making its acquisition of fellow cloud computing company Segment official.

San Francisco-based Twilio announced early on Monday that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Segment for $3.2 billion in an all-stock deal. The deal is expected to close in Twilio’s fourth fiscal quarter, the company said.

Forbes first broke the news of the pending acquisition on Friday.

In a joint interview with Forbes on Sunday night, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson described the deal as the next step for a service that’s spent the last decade-plus “taking communications and breaking it down into building blocks” for developers to reach their own business’ customers.

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