Ryan Leslie is Coming to SIGNAL London

Ryan Leslie is Coming to SIGNAL London

Who knew an artist could change the trajectory of their career one SMS at a time?

Ryan Leslie, the Harvard educated, grammy-nominated rap and hip-hop artist did just this. He created SuperPhone, a platform that enables him (and you) to connect with an audience on a more personal level.

Ryan will be joining us for SIGNAL London on September 20th, 2016. You don’t want to miss it.

This is SuperPhone

We recognized Ryan as a DOER at SIGNAL, our annual conference for developers. DOERs are folks in the Twilio community who’ve done something to change the world with a text editor.

I texted +1 (646) 887-6968 in October 2015 to ask Ryan what he thought about being a part of SIGNAL. But I never expected that I’d actually get a human response, let alone from Ryan himself! After exchanging a few texts with Ryan via SuperPhone you can’t help but feel like maybe you’ve been friends for a long time. This is a powerful thing, giving an artist the freedom to have real connections with their followers. And Ryan has personally replied to over 50,000 of his fans since creating SuperPhone.

“Literally, my entire life started to change. Not just because I had a 50% conversion rate on sales,” says Ryan.

He was as excited to share this story as he is to share his music with his fans. And it could not have been more surreal to see a rapper/producer/coder/entrepreneur onstage at SIGNAL. Around 18 minutes into the video, Ryan transitions from telling his story to busting out a performance like no other in respect to what most developers experience at a tech conference.

Check out the full story and watch him perform Never Break Down at SIGNAL here:

Ryan and the SuperPhone story are ever evolving. He will be joining us again on September 20th at The Brewery on Chiswell Street to share more with the developer community at SIGNAL London. Use the code BLOG50 on registration and you’ll get £50 off the ticket price.