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Rapid and the price of a shortcut
Rapid made APIs easier to find, test, and buy. Its journey from a teenage founder’s marketplace to Nokia’s network ambitions reveals the awkward business of selling developers time.
SID Global Solutions and the art of making the boring pay
A returned product, an unused API, a question at the DMV. SID Global Solutions builds its business around the small delays that become expensive when everyone has them.
Dan Temkin
Dan Temkin is a Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager at Kong (formerly Mashape), one of the world's leading API management platforms. With over a decade of experience in API strategy spanning roles at IBM and Kong, Temkin sits at the intersection of complex distributed systems and the business language needed to explain them. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, he shapes how enterprises think about API security, AI governance, and the economics of running LLMs at scale - authoring widely-read Kong blog posts, speaking at Apidays and AWS re:Invent, and helping translate the architecture of Kong's $424M-funded platform into decisions that matter to engineering and executive teams alike.