Plivo was founded in 2011 by Venky Balasubramanian[REF][REF] and Michael Ricordeau,[REF] which originally started as an open source telephony project.
Mike and Venky met in person for the first time at ClueCon 2011 to present Plivo Open Source to the developer community,[REF] an annual conference for webRTC and telephony developers hosted by FreeSWITCH [REF].