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  "markdown": "Founder and CEO, BILL.\n\nRené Lacerte founded BILL in April 2006, first as Cashboard, and leads it as chief executive. Before that he co-founded and ran PayCycle, an online payroll software company.\n\n## What René builds\n\n- [BILL](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bill.md), graded C, 61/100, in Spend management \u0026 procurement. BILL is a US financial operations platform for accounts payable, accounts receivable and company card spend. Its v3 REST API reads and writes bills, payments, invoices, budgets, cards, transactions and reimbursements, and an MCP server in beta gives read-only access. Founder and CEO, BILL, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is René Lacerte?\n\nRené Lacerte founded BILL in April 2006, first as Cashboard, and leads it as chief executive. Before that he co-founded and ran PayCycle, an online payroll software company.\n\n### What does BILL Holdings, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists BILL from BILL Holdings, Inc.. BILL is a US financial operations platform for accounts payable, accounts receivable and company card spend. Its v3 REST API reads and writes bills, payments, invoices, budgets, cards, transactions and reimbursements, and an MCP server in beta gives read-only access.\n\n### How are René's tools graded?\n\nBILL is graded C, 61 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.bill.com/\n- https://www.bill.com/contact-us\n- https://www.bill.com/leadership\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill.com\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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