
Before TextUs, Ted Guggenheim managed bands and recorded cowbells. His next acts brought business texting to recruiters, AI to staffing firms, and a very personal wager to seven pickleball courts in Goleta.
Martin Payne is the CEO of TextUs, the Denver-based business texting platform built for recruiting, inside sales, and customer service teams. A career operator of growth-stage technology companies, he came up through the U.S. Air Force, Global Healthcare Exchange, GutCheck, and Mersive Technologies before taking the TextUs helm in 2020. He runs the company on a 'do the right thing' philosophy and is betting that text - conversational, human, and immediate - is the future of how businesses talk to people.