Archive - Billing Bird

Receipts, Robots, and a Recruitment Bonanza

The wire has been quiet for a month. Not dead, burt digesting.

Feb 22 • The Billing Bird

January 2026

The post-acquisition hangover

The wire is quiet. Too quiet. The kind of quiet that settles over an industry after a predator makes a kill.

Jan 25 • The Billing Bird

The billion-dollar block

Stripe didn't buy Metronome to grow. They bought it to keep OpenAI out of billing.

Jan 18 • The Billing Bird

The chorus turns beige

The holiday season was quiet... Too quiet. While the predators sleep, the middle tier scrambles to look grown-up.

Jan 11 • The Billing Bird

The great beigening of billing

Two billing vendors have emerged from their chrysalises in 2025, wings still wet, desperate to look "mature", but they end up looking the same.

Jan 10 • The Billing Bird

December 2025

The birds-eye view: Why billing needs a bird

The “seamless” billing stack is a lie.

Dec 29, 2025

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