Resend vs Marketo: Email API Battle! #shorts

Jason M. Lemkin compares Resend and Marketo for email delivery. Resend has a clean API that works with his AI marketing agent; Marketo's API is locked down, blocking integration with their dashboard. He gives Marketo an F-minus for accessibility.
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That's why I was like, people are not gonna think this is a true story, but sadly it's true. And it's worse because, um, you brought up Resend. So we use Resend, which we're champions of, right? It was one of the— I brought it in early in our journey and Resend works very elegantly with, um, it's exploded. It works very elegantly with all the vibe-coded platforms, but because it works elegantly, not only is it good and not only does the unsubscribe links work, kudos, uh, unlike Marketo, my God, but you can talk to it. Like if we want to tweak the email, if we want to change it at the Agentic level, we just tell the agent how we want resend to work and it works. Marketo, our so-called marketing platform, we can't even use its API to link up with our AIVP Marketing 10K. Our AI 10K Marketing is so powerful. When we do our standup or when I check in with it, it has all of our data, but only Salesforce data because can't access the API at Marketo. The agent, the agent can pull us. Now we have better dashboards than I ever had in Salesforce inside of 10K. They're, they're great. They're usable. They're dynamic, they're what I need, and you built it. So it's obviously what you need, but we can't even access this pre-AI API. It's an F minus. So, so that one's the worst. Interestingly, you put Salesforce the best. I would put the two best I've used, I put Resend in the, in the, in the top tier. The only problem with Resend is it's the very nature of email, getting your domains verified and stuff is a bit of a headache now. Can I— would it be the same with others? Yes. But, and was it 50 times better to implement than SendGrid? Yes. But it just, it wasn't a one-click implementation because getting the MX records and everything, it's still, this is a headache. And I know I can't blame Resend, but I wish their magicians could solve all these problems too.
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