No, I don’t think so Bird scooters. ThinkBird, formerly MessageBird. As for Amsterdam-based Unicorn, the brand is now being rebranded as such following the acquisition of Unicorn Bird.com Domain name a few years ago, allegedly multi-million.
Founded in 2011 by Adriaan Mol and Robert Vis, the enterprise cloud communications platform is also launching a range of new products and a radical price cut to take on rivals like Twilio.
“Our thought process on this was actually quite simple and obviously this decision was made before the Bird Group went bankrupt,” Weiss told me over the phone. “I’m trying to build a legacy company that will be around in 50 years, and there was no way I had in mind that the scooter company would be Existing for 50 years.
Bird CRM for marketing, sales and payments via email, SMS and WhatsApp is discounted at 40-90% discount and the company said in a statement today that it will be offering a 90% discount on SMS.
A new marketing campaign will quote Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ phrase, “Your margins are my opportunities.” Twilio is said to be making $1.3 billion in revenue on SMS, which messagebird appears to be looking to take to zero as prices fall. TechCrunch sources say Vis mentioned this intention eight years ago while promoting MessageBird during a 2016 YC Demo Day.
This step is important, since $100,000 via SMS or email with companies like Twilio, Klaviyo, or Attentive can translate into $10,000 in spending. TechCrunch has reached out to Twilio for comment.
“We’re bringing prices down dramatically,” Viss said. “It’s time to move away from the space of API providers on top of channels, which we would probably agree has become quite commoditized. That’s the real difference between Twilio and us and maybe 10 other API providers.” SMS or other WhatsApp service providers. Our view is that being able to do something with the channel is much more important than the channel itself, so we’re essentially waiving the costs of the channel, which, if your sole business is as a channel provider, is probably really bad. Obviously, that’s kind of our intention, but if you provide any kind of relief at the top of the channel, I think that’s what the next 10 years are going to be.
“It’s no longer about the abstraction layer of APIs,” co-founder Vis added in a blog post. “AI has changed the game and upended everything – the next 10 years will be about infrastructure + applications – or how we like to look at it: what you can do with the channel.” Versus just access to the channel.
Vis has also had a busy week after meeting him Share LinkedIn The statement that he was seeking to buy companies with Electronic Money Institution (EMI) and/or Payment Institution (PI) licenses was widely circulated on the networking platform.
Meanwhile, Baird, the owner of rental scooters, recently declared bankruptcy.