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93rd percentile
Bird (MessageBird) founder & CEO scaling cloud comms at ~$3B valuation
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- Bird (MessageBird) last raised a $200M Series C at a ~$3B valuation.
- Bird is profitable with ~$250M net revenue in 2025.
- Bird scaled to 176+ employees across 27 countries, generating EUR300M annual revenue.
- Past founder of ZayPay.com, which was acquired by Mobile Interactive Group.
- Exit: ZayPay acquired by Mobile Interactive Group (undisclosed terms).
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Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Current Founder & CEO of Bird (formerly MessageBird).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)bird.com ranks #30,317 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)25,389 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Y Combinator alum (Bird / MessageBird, Summer 2016).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Bird (MessageBird) last raised a $200M Series C at a ~$3B valuation.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Past founder of ZayPay.com, which was acquired by Mobile Interactive Group.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Co-founder of People for People Foundation alongside other entrepreneurs.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Wikidata entity exists for Robert Vis (Q115736015), described as CEO of MessageBird.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Bird scaled to 176+ employees across 27 countries, generating EUR300M annual revenue.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 finalist (industry recognition).
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)FD Gazelle Award — Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies Netherlands.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Bird is profitable with ~$250M net revenue in 2025.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Exit: ZayPay acquired by Mobile Interactive Group (undisclosed terms).
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Hugging Face account @robertvis identified.
What you likely need
You're operating at a rare scale — a profitable, unicorn-valued cloud communications business going head-to-head with Twilio while shifting the company's center of gravity to the US. The most valuable Festival rooms for you right now are peer dinners with other late-stage / category-leader CEOs navigating US expansion, plus high-trust circles on the people side (workforce reshaping, AI-native org design). Lighter-touch but high-signal: alumni rooms (YC S16, Dutch founder diaspora) where warm intros and recruiting can compound.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA YC S16 founder dinner with other category-leading CEOs to compare late-stage scaling and US-expansion playbooks.
- positioningA small CPaaS / communications-infra roundtable with founders going head-to-head with Twilio on pricing and AI-native messaging.
- tacticalA dinner for European founders relocating GTM to the US, focused on Fortune 500 enterprise sales and US org-building.
- tacticalA roundtable on running AI-first engineering orgs (Cursor / Claude / agents) after a 20% headcount reshape.
- wellbeingA small founder-philanthropy dinner to share how People for People-style nonprofits are structured and funded.
- introsAn Amsterdam–SF Dutch founder happy hour to swap intros with other Netherlands-born category leaders.
- hiringA US enterprise GTM hiring night to recruit senior account execs covering Fortune 500 and big tech accounts.