{"podcast":{"title":"The Room Podcast","slug":"the-room-podcast-3398569","podcast_index_feed_id":3398569,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/aPz9Qkq6","website_url":"https://the-room.castos.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/620cd330-fbe4-42af-97b0-ffae7fe15085/8e1c0db1-29ba-47b6-b67c-fa1aad6a268f/3000x3000/image.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Claudia Laurie & Madison Mcilwain","episode_count":142,"summary":"Welcome to the Room. A series interviewing your favorite tech founders and funders. Our guests were in the room where it happened and they’re sharing their stories.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T00:19:52.993966+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-room-podcast-3398569"},"episode":{"title":"S14E4: Why Usage-Based Billing Is Inevitable with Metronome Co-Founder Scott Woody","slug":"s14e4-why-usage-based-billing-is-inevitable-with-metronome-co-founder-scott-woody","published_at":"2026-04-07T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-room-podcast-3398569/s14e4-why-usage-based-billing-is-inevitable-with-metronome-co-founder-scott-woody","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-room-podcast-3398569","url":"https://the-room.castos.com","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/35b3663b-a058-41e5-8409-cd2a07266d00/cf6dc480-9dd7-4da5-8aa6-0ccf203be4b8/episodes/audio/group/90ed9a96-0e88-440a-8c3a-715fd2fc4600/group-item/528bcf1f-a709-467f-b0b5-ec7a9456d087/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=aPz9Qkq6","summary":"In this episode of The Room Podcast, we speak with Scott Woody, Co-Founder of Metronome, a platform helping companies implement usage-based billing and modernize how they monetize software. Metronome enables businesses to move beyond rigid subscription pricing and instead charge customers based on actual product usage. The platform sits at the core of a new shift in SaaS: pricing that aligns directly with value delivered, rather than seats or static tiers, giving companies more flexibility and better feedback loops on how their products are used. This episode explores how billing and pricing infrastructure are becoming critical levers for modern software companies and why aligning pricing with value will define the next generation of SaaS businesses. Before founding Metronome, Scott founded Foundry (later acquired by Dropbox) and went on to spend six years at Dropbox leading engineering teams, where he helped scale monetization systems from $200M to over $1B in revenue. His experience operating at scale deeply informed how he approached building billing infrastructure from the ground up. In this conversation, Scott shares the core insight behind Metronome: pricing is one of the most important yet underbuilt parts of software, and usage-based billing unlocks a more accurate reflection of customer value. He also reflects on early founder lessons, recognizing product-market fit, and why solving “unsexy” problems can lead to the biggest opportunities.","meta_description":"In this episode of The Room Podcast, we speak with Scott Woody, Co-Founder of Metronome, a platform helping companies implement usage-based billing and mo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2981,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-room-podcast-3398569/episodes/s14e4-why-usage-based-billing-is-inevitable-with-metronome-co-founder-scott-woody/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-room-podcast-3398569/s14e4-why-usage-based-billing-is-inevitable-with-metronome-co-founder-scott-woody.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}