The Business of APIs
summary
Argues that APIs are a distinct business model, cites 30,000+ public APIs and RapidAPI’s marketplace serving millions of developers with tens of thousands of APIs, notes REST dominance, and warns most providers get lost because the top 25% take 90% of traffic. Presents exits and deals (Wavecell ~$250M acquisition), claims API comps trade at ~75–100x revenue vs SaaS 25–50x, explains superior net revenue retention, and launches API-fund.vc and API Landscape.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:45Jeds journey in API
- 1:40Our mission
- 2:58SOAP vs REST
- 4:50Pureplay APIs
- 5:56New sectors
- 6:30Success
- 7:08Digital Ocean
- 10:13Access Problems
- 11:54API Landscape
- 14:07API Economy
- 18:27Venture Metrics
- 19:19Net Revenue Retention
- 23:08Framework
- 25:33Value creation defensibility
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