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Bloomberg Technology sits down with Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler following what the company is calling one of the best quarters in its history. The headline metric is voice channel revenue growth of 20% year-over-year — the sixth consecutive quarter of accelerating growth in that segment — which Shipchandler attributes directly to AI-driven voice workloads from startups building human-to-agent-to-human communication pipelines. The stock rose roughly $4 billion in market cap on the day of the interview.
Shipchandler frames Twilio’s longer-term trajectory as a transition from messaging and voice API provider to a broader communications infrastructure layer, with a channel orchestration capability designed to reach customers on the right channel with the right context at the right time — regardless of whether the interaction is human-to-human or agent-mediated. He declined to detail upcoming announcements ahead of the company’s Signal customer conference the following week, but characterized the platform ambition as already in execution.
On workforce and AI productivity, Shipchandler estimated a personal 10–15% productivity gain over the past two years from AI tooling, a gain the company is redirecting into innovation velocity rather than headcount reduction. Twilio deploys AI tools across its workforce under strict security guardrails and is seeing early but growing use of its developer console from vibe coders, experimenters, and agent builders — a segment Shipchandler expects to become more significant.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Technology · Published May 01, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
