How a Peace Corps volunteer found the right co-founder (and sold the company to Rackspace) – with Teri Wilson

Teri Wilson, Rackspace, Customer Acquisition, Sell Your Business, Women Founders

This is the story of a woman who couldn’t even use Twitter, but ended up working with a co-founder who changed her life.

Teri Wilson co-founded Exceptional Cloud Services, a company that was acquired by Rackspace, about two years after its launch.

Exceptional offers a deep portfolio of developer-focused tools, including Exceptional.io for error tracking in web applications; Airbrake.io for collecting and aggregating errors generated by other applications.

Teri Wilson

Rackspace

Teri Wilson is the Operations Manager at Rackspace, the Open Cloud Company.

 

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. I’m Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy. It is home of the ambitious upstart, as you probably know by now. I’ve probably said this, almost 1,000 times. But I haven’t said this, I haven’t introduced you to today’s guest yet. And she’s about to tell you the story of how she went from not even knowing how to use Twitter, to [laughs] ending up working with a co-founder, who changed her life.

Teri Wilson is the co-founder of Exceptional Cloud Services, a company that was acquired by Rackspace, about two years after its launch. Exceptional offers a deep portfolio of developer focused tools, including Exceptional.io for error tracking, and web applications, Airbrake.io for collecting and aggregating errors, generated by other applications. And Redis To Go, for easy Redis Instance Management. All these things, Teri probably wouldn’t have understood, when she first got connected with this...

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