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MessageBird rebrands as Bird, and slashes prices by 90% on SMS to take on Twilio


No, don’t think Bird Scooters. Think Bird, formerly MessageBird. For the Amsterdam-based unicorn is now re-branding as such after reportedly acquiring the

Founded in 2011 by Adriaan Mol and Robert Vis, the cloud communications platform for enterprises is also launching a range of new products and a drastic pricing cut to go up against competitors such as Twilio. Vis told me over the phone: “Our thought process was pretty simple on this actually and obviously this decision was made way before Bird Group went bankrupt. TechCrunch sources say Vis mentioned this intention eight years ago while pitching MessageBird during his 2016 YC Demo Day.

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