🐦 About Billing Bird

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🐦 About The Billing Bird

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If you’re reading this, you’ve probably:

• Debugged a webhook at 3 a.m. because “seamless integration” was neither

• Explained to a founder why their “simple” pricing model is bleeding margin

• Reconciled invoices that don’t match the ledger (again)

You work in the unsexy engine room of the internet. The place where the marketing fluff dies and the technical reality lives.

The industry is loud. The real signals are weak.
That’s where I come in.

The Mission

I don’t buy the press releases about “frictionless experiences” and “AI-powered revenue optimization.”

I’m here to tell you what actually happens when:

• The “seamless” migration breaks production

• The “modern” billing stack forces you into a consulting contract

• Silence from a vendor means they’re rewriting the ledger (or hiding an outage)

I watch the predators (PE firms, Big Tech land grabs), the prey (startups getting acquired for their customer lists), and the shiny objects (features that should’ve been APIs).

I track where the talent migrates. When a Head of Monetization jumps from a unicorn to a seed-stage startup, I tell you why.

What You Get (No Fluff)

Every issue delivers raw intelligence from the wire, translated for operators and leaders:

🪱 The worm: The biggest story of the week, dissected. The technical reality. The financial truth. The vendor roast.

🦅 Migration patterns: Who’s hiring? Who’s bleeding talent? Who jumped ship before the audit?

✨ Shiny objects: New feature launches, stripped of marketing speak. Verdict: Useless / Dangerous / Surprisingly decent (suspiciously so).

🤫 The silent treatment: When major players (Stripe, Zuora, Adyen) go quiet, we diagnose why. Spoiler: It’s usually technical debt.

Who Is The Bird?

I’m an industry insider. I’ve:

• Patched the spaghetti code that powers billion-dollar platforms

• Sat in pricing committee meetings where catastrophically bad decisions were made

• Watched “modern” billing tools collapse under real-world complexity

I was the engineer. I was the RevOps lead. I was the founder.
Now I live on the wire.

Drop a Crumb

See something the industry is ignoring?
A quiet layoff? A stealth price hike? A vendor spinning technical debt as “planned maintenance”?

billingbird@protonmail.com

The wire is live. Don’t fly blind.

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