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Flexport was a breakout success—reimagining global trade with tech at its core. But when the freight market cooled and efficiency overtook service, things started to unravel. Founder Ryan Petersen stepped aside, handing the CEO role to former Amazon exec Dave Clark. Months later, he was back at the helm.In this episode, Ryan explains what went wrong, how he's rebuilding Flexport—cutting $300M in costs, restoring customer focus—and why promoting from within beats chasing outside stars. He also weighs in on Trump's proposed tariffs and what they could mean for the future of global trade.Chapters: 00:00 Trailer00:31 Introduction02:07 Meeting smart people, seeing the world03:40 Eroded margins09:52 Charismatic and overconfident15:32 Not an overnight decision20:08 The founder has returned23:10 Redoing the hiring26:38 No substitute for passion31:00 Working for and with my brother37:28 Working with forwarders42:14 Being a founder can be lonely47:49 Life's work54:06 The right person for the job1:00:55 19 countries1:04:57 Blowing people up1:07:24 Work and being a good dad1:08:34 Not doing it for money and loving money1:17:52 Import and export tariffs1:22:57 De minimis1:25:54 Panama and the Suez Canal1:36:50 Going public1:42:24 Who Flexport is Hiring 1:42:42 What "grit" means to Ryan1:43:06 OutroMentioned in this episode: Founders Fund, Amazon, Toyota Motor Corporation, Slack, Brex, Pedro Franceschi, Henrique Dubugras, United States Customs and Border Protection, ImportGenius, Michael Kanko, Y Combinator, Paul Graham, Intel Corporation, Shopify, Geely Holding (Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd.), The Volvo Group, Intuit TurboTax, David Petersen, BuildZoom, TechCrunch, Google, Figma, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Jimmy Carter, Panama Canal Authority, United States Navy, Coinbase, Uber, AirbnbLinks:Connect with RyanXLinkedInConnect with JoubinTwitterLinkedInEmail: grit@kleinerperkins.comLearn more about Kleiner Perkins
Last week, Brex announced that it would be ditching its co-CEO model, and that got Equity hosts Haje Kamps and Mary Ann Azevedo wondering about co-CEO teams and the effectiveness of the structure overall.Brex, founded in 2017 by Pedro Franceschi and Henrique Dubugras, initially thrived under the co-CEO structure, with Pedro focusing on internal operations and Enrique handling external relations. However, as the company grew, this setup began to slow decision-making, prompting a shift to a single CEO model. Pedro will now lead as the sole CEO, while Enrique transitions to Chairman of the Board.We discuss the broader implications and challenges of co-CEO leadership, highlighting how this change aims to enhance agility and appeal to investors as Brex eyes a potential public offering. We also explore other companies that have adopted or abandoned similar leadership models, providing a comprehensive analysis of the pros and cons of shared CEO responsibilities in the competitive tech landscape.Equity will be back with a full rundown of the week's startup and venture news on Friday, but if you want more from TechCrunch podcasts until then, Darrell and Becca spoke to both Brex CEOs on Found last year about why the duo chose to go down the co-CEO path in the first place.Equity is TechCrunch's flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts.You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod. For the full episode transcript, for those who prefer reading over listening, check out our full archive of episodes over at Simplecast. Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products.
Já ouviu falar da Berkshire Hathaway? Sabia que existe uma brasileira que cresceu no mundo #tech? Click nesse episódio e venha conhecer a história de Eduardo Lins Henrique, Cofundador e ex-CEO da Movile, uma holding dona de grandes marcas tais como iFood, Sympla, Zoop e Wavy. Nascido em Campinas, no interior paulista, Edu Henrique ingressou para o mundo tech quando entrou na Unicamp para cursar Ciência da Computação. Marketeiro em sua essência, Edu também decidiu cursar ESPM ao receber bolsa integral paga pelos pais, desde que cursasse as duas faculdades simultaneamente. Ao se formar das faculdades, ele decidiu empreender e fundar a Movile, uma empresa de envio de SMS na época em que celulares ainda eram analógicos. Edu conta neste episódio como foi empreender e criar a Movile, quebrar, se reinventar e posteriormente integrar o seu negócio a holding que virou fundadora e dona de marcas unicórneas. Ele relata a importância da sua mudança para os Estados Unidos em 2012 e como o networking no vale do silício (Silicon Valley), abriu portas para grandes ideias, oportunidades, pessoas e negócios. Edu encerra este episódio falando de sua experiência ao deixar a maior oportunidade bilionária de investimento em sua carreira. Ele simplesmente dispensou os fundadores Henrique Dubugras e Pedro Franceschi com suas ideias de criar a Brex quando eram meninos indo cursar Stanford University. Uma ideia que hoje é avaliada em $12.5 bilhões de dólares... acontece! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acesse também no Youtube
HENRIQUE'S BIO Henrique Dubugras is one of the most accomplished entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and the world's youngest self-made billionaire added to the Forbes List in 2022. A true master, an entrepreneur who is now 28 years old and inarguably at the top of his game. His company building path started when he was twelve, when he started his first company. In his words: “I started coding when I was 12, because there was this game I wanted to play. It was like a paid game and my parents didn't want to pay for me; I figured out, if I learned how to code, I could play it for free.” I've known Henrique for a number of years and in every conversation I learn something new, including in this one. Henrique is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Brex, the first of its kind corporate card for startups and small businesses valued at about $10 billion. Born and raised in Brazil, he launched payments company Pagar.me (“the Stripe of Brazil”) which happened to be Microsoft's Startup of the Year in 2014. He was sixteen! While still a teenager, the company had grown to process $1.5 billion in transaction volume and in the fall of 2016, Henrique sold the company and enrolled at Stanford. After eight months, he dropped out and founded Brex. How he met his co-founder, Pedro Franceschi, is also the stuff of legend -- via a Twitter argument in 2012. The heated discussion turned into a Skype call that started a long friendship. They founded Pagar.me together, went to Stanford together, did Y Combinator together, and dropped out together to form Brex. The vision was and continues to be to reinvent the corporate credit card. He currently sits on the boards of Expedia and Mercado Libre and is an advisor at Instituto Alpha Lumen near his hometown. “I got some legal notifications from Google about some patent thing after starting my first company at 12, I had no idea what patents were… I was just a kid hacker in Brazil.” “One of the craziest things I ever experienced, the weekend SVB blew up.” “The hardest part as a leader is figuring out where to spend your time, especially when people around you have many more ‘hours of flight' managing people.” HENRIQUE RELATED LINKS Brex Forbes Billionaire Profile Times Magazine: How SVB Crisis Boosted Brex Bloomberg Linea Joining Expedia's Board GENERAL INFO| TOP OF THE GAME: Official website: https://topofthegame-thepod.com/ RSS Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/topofthegame-thepod/feed.xml Hosting service show website: https://topofthegame-thepod.podbean.com/ Javier's LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/javiersaade & Bio: https://tinyurl.com/36ufz6cs SUPPORT & CONNECT: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/96934564 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551086203755 Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOPOFGAMEpod Subscribe on Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/site/podcatcher/index/blog/vLKLE1SKjf6G Email us: info@topofthegame-thepod.com THANK YOU FOR LISTENING – AVAILABLE ON ALL MAJOR PLATFORMS
As Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of fintech startup Brex, Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi are true “friendpreneurs” – and they're not even 30 years old. As teens, they met over Twitter in Brazil, hacking and jailbreaking their way through high school. After their payment startup Pagar.me (“basically the Stripe of Brazil”) achieved success, they left Brazil for Silicon Valley, where they used their unique insight into the payments landscape to start Brex in 2017. Originally offering credit cards to startups, Brex has moved and scaled at incredible speed, reaching $100 million in revenue just 18 months after launch, and expanding from credit cards into a global spend management platform that both startups and enterprise customers rely on. Today, the company is valued at more than $12 billion. But scaling this big, this fast hasn't always been smooth. Henrique and Pedro share their journey, wisdom, and experience managing risk and making tough decisions and pivots. They also explain how their complementary skillsets, friendship, drive, and long-view approach fuel their ambition to build Brex into a global fintech powerhouse – one that's challenging established financial services and payments players.
Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras found himself playing an important role during the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Brex is what you might call a neobank — not a traditional bank but rather a financial services provider that helps companies manage how they spend money, corporate cards, travel expenses and the rest. In the middle of the SVB collapse, Brex was more than just a spending management company. It was also a safe place to park money. Brex saw billions of deposits in a very short period of time, giving Dubugras a bird's-eye view of what was happening — and what was happening was not great for the banking system, especially in Silicon Valley. (Our own Liz Lopatto has been covering this in depth.) I wanted to hear Dubugras' perspective on SVB both as a fintech CEO and a founder himself, whether he thought the crisis was rational or just a panic caused by group texts and easy-to-use mobile banking interfaces, what he thinks will happen to the startup ecosystem next, and how much of an opportunity all this was for Brex. Dubugras is a young CEO. He just turned 27. He really surprised me with his depth here, and he will probably surprise some of you as well. Okay, Henrique Dubugras, CEO of Brex. Here we go. Links: The tech industry moved fast and broke its most prestigious bank Liz Lopatto - The Verge A fintech CEO is trying to raise more than $1 billion to fund bridge loans for startups impacted by the Silicon Valley Bank collapse Robinhood Users Say The Trading App Won't Cash In Their Profitable Bets Against Silicon Valley Bank What Is A Neobank? – Forbes Advisor Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23433504 Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. It was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright. The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Editorial Director is Brooke Minters and our Executive Director is Eleanor Donovan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Henrique Dubugras is the co-founder and co-CEO of Brex, most recently valued at $12.3 billion. Henrique joins Adam to share his journey and best lessons and advice. Henrique and Adam discuss a wide range of topics: entrepreneurship, leadership, mentorship, pivoting as a business and in your career, growth and scale, raising money, building winning teams and cultures, and more.
Brex is a fintech startup that aims to be a one-stop financial shop for startups and small businesses, offering a deposit account, a corporate credit card and lines of credit as well as expense management tools. Since its 2017 launch it's taken on over 20,000 clients from startups to well-known brands such as Airbnb and Door Dash. After the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Brex was inundated with calls from businesses in need of immediate credit lines. Fortunately, they weren't required after the US government stepped in, but Brex founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras says the fall of SVB is a pivotal moment for the industry. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
On the heels of the pivotal collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), I recently talked with Henrique Dubugras, the Cofounder and Co-CEO of Brex, an integrated corporate card and spend management software company that has raised $1.5B in capital. As companies frantically exited their SVB accounts at a record pace, in one of the world's largest bank runs, Brex moved quickly to attract and support startups by fast tracking applications, maintaining card credit limits, and more than doubling FDIC insurance levels to $2.25M through their partner bank network. Smart moves, as Brex has since received billions of dollars of deposits from thousands of SVB clients—and is now looking to potentially raise billions more to help companies with emergency operational and payroll bridge loans. Henrique joined me for an episode of The Reboot Chronicles for a fascinating discussion about how they are rebooting the sector, what's next in FinTech, and provide an exclusive look inside Brex. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rebootchronicles/message
The best advice Brex founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras ever received came from Snap CEO Evan Spiegel: The best CEOs, Spiegel told him, are “extremely authentic to themselves ... If you try to emulate being Elon Musk and you're not like that, you're just gonna fail.” This wisdom has empowered Dubugras and his co-founder, Pedro Franceschi, to focus on the places where they can be most effective at Brex, and to be more authentic with their coworkers. In this episode, Henrique and Joubin discuss coaches vs. therapy, mutual crushes, “hacker famous,” big egos, why missions are overrated, dropping out of college, CEO's identities, the “Silicon Valley mold,” trojan-horsing Max Levchin, pivoting after two years, going to the ground, compensation and hiring myths, core customers, fixing expense report policies, and joining the Expedia board.In this episode, we cover: Growing up in Brazil and Henrique's relationship with his mom (01:07) The first company he sold, Pagar.me, and his co-founder Pedro Franceschi (07:11) Becoming “successful” and why it's fine to have a “f**ked up motivation” (10:35) ADHD, dueling superpowers, and focusing on the right things (15:56) Being an authentic CEO and not reading books (19:51) The radical changes Brex has experienced in the past three years (24:40) Brex's new spend management product and landing initial customers (30:30) The messages sent by how Brex structures its employee compensation (34:07) How Henrique and Pedro recruited top talent when they were just getting started (38:57) Pivoting a $12 billion company: “We can't do all these things” (43:33) The challenges of becoming more of an enterprise company than a Fintech one (50:34) Links: Connect with Henrique Twitter LinkedIn Connect with Joubin Twitter LinkedIn Email: grit@kleinerperkins.com Learn more about Kleiner Perkins
This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Brex co-founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras to chat about his corporate credit card and expense management startup. Henrique talked about what made him and his co-founder (Pedro Franceschi) decide to launch the company and why the friends, who met online as teenagers, decided to be co-CEOs. Henrique also talks about how Brex navigated changes at the startup this year, and how he personally handled layoffs, all while Darrell and Becca do a questionable job of hiding their disdain for Brex's legacy competitor.Take our listener survey and let us know a bit about yourself and what you think of FoundSubscribe to Found to hear more stories from founders each week.Connect with us:On TwitterOn InstagramVia email: found@techcrunch.com
This week, Mary Ann is taking the reins with another favorite from the TechCrunch Disrupt stage. She sat down with Brex CEO and co-founder, Henrique Dubugras, and Anu Hariharan, YC's managing director for continuity and an early Brex investor, to expose the context around this whirlwind of a year.The conversation candidly uncovers details behind the fintech's pandemic pivot, layoffs, and going remote. If you love the conversation, share it with a friend. And if you want more on Brex, Mary Ann dove deeper into the conversation last month.Equity drops every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 a.m. PT, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. TechCrunch also has a great show on crypto, a show that interviews founders, a show that details how our stories come together and more!
What's top of mind for exceptional entrepreneurs? In the latest episode of Exchanges at Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs' Kim Posnett, global head of Investment Banking Services, sat down with two company founders — Henrique Dubugras, co-founder and co-CEO at Brex and Carolyn Childers, co-founder and CEO at Chief — to discuss their founder journeys, how their businesses are adapting to a challenging macro environment, and what they are most optimistic about for their futures. The episode was recorded at the firm's annual Builders and Innovators Summit.
Henrique and his co-founder, Pedro, started their entrepreneurial journey at 16 when they started pagar.me. In the process of doing so, they learned a ton about what product market fit looks like and how difficult it is to run a profitable business. Henrique and Pedro went on to stumble on quite the market opportunity: Why was it that startups were raising millions of dollars from VC funds but then struggling to get a corporate credit card with a $30,000 credit line? In short, they identified an underserved market with tons of latent demand and very little actual credit risk. These companies may have been considered ‘risky', but in reality, they were very credit-worthy. 5 years and change later, Brex has raised over $1.5Bn, employees well over 1,200 people, and is a market leader in the corporate credit card and spend management space. Henrique joins Scott Britton and Andrei Newman on the Built By Humans podcast as they discuss how to design processes that scale with your company, the importance of focus, and why being extremely authentic is the key to being an effective leader. Here are some key takeaways from the conversation: The best CEOs are extremely authentic to themselves and build a team of people around them that allow them to be the best version of themselves. Antiquated industry infrastructure can yield fantastic opportunities for disruption. In Brex's case, banking infrastructure prevented incumbents from underwriting customers daily which turned out to be a key differentiator for Brex. Calculate the true cost of a new process before implementing it. Many processes make the lives of 99% of your people worse all in the name of preventing the 1% of times where things go wrong. A CEOs job is to balance risk with speed and decide what types of risks they are willing to take on in order to move faster. Doubling headcount doesn't mean double the output. Many times leadership bandwidth is the biggest bottleneck to productivity. Focus is imperative. There will always be many strategic directions that have merit and value to your company but it's important to be okay ceding some to competitors in the name of doubling down on your core business.
The "growing pains" experienced by traditional financial institutions are acting as a natural catalyst for the digitalization and proliferation of new currency systems. As a result of new applications and technologies that can provide even faster, easier, and more cost-effective payments, the entire ecosystem is set to undergo significant change. In this episode of The Money Movement, Jeremy is joined by Henrique Dubugras, Founder and Co-CEO at Brex* to discuss how they are influencing the financial management of a business and the opportunities and limitations of fiscal decentralization. *Brex is a Circle customer
The "growing pains" experienced by traditional financial institutions are acting as a natural catalyst for the digitalization and proliferation of new currency systems. As a result of new applications and technologies that can provide even faster, easier, and cost-effective payments, the entire ecosystem is set to undergo significant change. In this episode of The Money Movement, Jeremy is joined by Henrique Dubugras, Founder and Co-CEO at Brex* to discuss how they are influencing the financial management of business and the opportunities and limitations of fiscal decentralization. *Brex is a Circle customer They cover:
In this debut episode, host Sabrina Halper sits down with Henrique Dubugras, the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Brex, a credit card and financial toolkit for startups, valued at $12.3B. As a 16 year old living in the middle of Brazil, Henrique founded Pagar.me, which did over $1.5B in sales. He then went on to attend Stanford University for 6 months, until dropping out to join Y Combinator and start Brex with his co-founder Pedro Franceschi. At 26 years old, he's a second time founder who runs one of the most prominent fintech companies in Silicon Valley. In this conversation, he discusses his personal motivations, his views on crypto, and why he's extremely optimistic about the future.
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Henrique Dubugras is the Founder and CEO @ Brex, the company re-imagining financial systems so every growing company can realize its full potential. To date, Henrique has raised over $1.1BN for Brex from some of the best including Ribbit, Greenoaks, DST, IVP, Caffeinated Capital and Elad Gil to name a few. Henrique is also a board member at Mercado Libre. Prior to co-founding Brex, Henrique co-founded Pagar.me, there he scaled the company to $15BN in GMV and over 100 people before selling the company in 2016. In Today's Episode with Henrique Dubugras You Will Learn: 1.) The Founding of Brex: What was the founding a-ha moment for Henrique and Pedro with Brex? What advice did Evan Spiegel give Henrique when it comes to being a great CEO? 2.) Hiring: The Trials and Tribulations What have been Henrique's biggest hiring mistakes? How do founders know when they are ready to bring in the seasoned exec vs the younger jack of all trades candidate? What have been Henrique's biggest lessons in what it takes to hire true A* talent? Where does Henrique see other founders make big hiring mistakes? 3.) Product Expansion and Marketing: How does Henrique assess when is the right time to release a second product? What have been Henrique's biggest mistakes and lessons when it comes to product marketing? How can one retain the simplicity of product messaging with scaling the product? Brex expanded the product too far, too fast. How did they walk it back so successfully? 4.) Henrique: The Leader How does Henrique approach his own relationship to money today? How has it changed over time? What luxury expenditure has Henrique made over the last 12 months that he feels is worth it? How does Henrique think about ego management? What does he do to keep his in check? Item's Mentioned In Today's Episode with Henrique Dubugras Henrique's Favourite Book: The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Quem são os jovens brasileiros que passaram a fazer parte da lista de bilionários da Forbes? Saiba no Flash! Dois jovens brasileiros estrearam na lista de bilionários da Forbes. De acordo com o ranking publicado nesta quarta-feira (05), são: Henrique Dubugras, de 26 anos, e Pedro Franceschini, 25 anos. Eles são co-fundadores e co-presidentes da fintech Brex. Os jovens detêm uma fatia de 28% na empresa, garantindo uma fortuna avaliada em cerca de US$ 1,5 bilhão, segundo a Forbes. Entre outros destaques do dia estão o governo avaliando alterar a assembleia da Petrobras (PETR3, PETR4), que votaria as indicações de nomes indicados pelo governo no próximo dia 13. e a venda de ativos da Vale (VALE3) do Sistema Centro-Oeste para J&F. O negócio é avaliado em US$ 1,2 bilhão.
In today's episode, Ally McCloskey sits down with Jason Wenk, Founder & CEO of Altruist. Altruist is an all-in-one digital platform for Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) and their clients that helps make financial advice more efficient, more affordable, and accessible to more people. Using Altruist, advisors have cutting edge tools on an investment platform that significantly streamlines and reduces their costs, enabling them to serve more people, better. The upstart most recently raised its $50mm Series B led by Insight Partners, with follow-on participation from Series A investors Venrock and Vanguard. Ally and Jason discuss: - How the space has evolved over the decades he's been a founder in financial advice and wealth management, and how he was able to get "more efficient" with each new company - Where he stands on the human advice vs. roboadvisory trade-off and why Altruist only works with RIA firms - How he cold solicited the Top 10 Financial Advisors To Watch on Linkedin as part of customer discovery - Launching the Human Advisor Podcast (https://apple.co/3KMghnX) to elevate the stories of a new breed of modern advisors - Building a "dreamy" group of board members, including Wharton Alumni and Former Chairman and CEO of Vanguard, Bill McNabb, Jonathan Rosenbaum (Insight Partners), Nick Beim (Venrock), and Ryan Barrows (Vanguard) as an observer. - Attracting folks to the challenge of taking on 2 major incumbents controlling 80%+ market share and each with $100 billion dollar valuations - Why Altruist's people quotient centers on kindness, brilliance, and grit - And a WHOLE lot more About Jason Wenk Jason has excelled as a leader in the financial services industry over the past 20 years, working as an advisor, investment systems developer, analyst, and founder of multiple companies. He is dedicated to making finance a collaborative space between advisors and consumers, emphasizing the importance of human connection and interaction to improve financial wellness with affordable and accessible resources for more people. After a number of successful and innovative business concepts including FormulaFolios and Retirement Wealth Advisors, Jason chose to focus on creating meaningful experiences for advisors and their clients with fintech firm, Altruist. Jason was awarded GRBJ Newsmaker of the Year in 2016 and 2017 (finance category) and was named an EY Entrepreneur of the Year in 2018. About Altruist Altruist is a Los Angeles-based company on a mission to make financial advisors more efficient, more affordable, and accessible to more people. The team builds products to provide advisors cutting edge tools, and offers an investment platform that substantially lowers costs. As a completely digital brokerage, Altruist helps advisors provide their clients with a delightful experience with their money. Learn more at altruist.com, follow on Twitter @altruist, and check out the Human Advisor Podcast here: https://grow.altruist.com/introducing-the-human-advisor-podcast. Honorable mentions: - WFT podcast episode with Bill McNabb, Former Vanguard CEO & Chairman: https://medium.com/wharton-fintech/former-vanguard-ceo-chairman-bill-mcnabb-the-future-of-finance-leading-in-crisis-esg-436f1c031907 - WFT podcast episode with Henrique Dubugras, Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Brex: https://medium.com/wharton-fintech/reinventing-financial-systems-henrique-dubugras-co-founder-co-ceo-of-brex-8dc7ab820765 -- As always, for more Fintech insights and opportunities to collaborate, please find us below: WFT Blog: medium.com/wharton-fintech WFT Twitter: twitter.com/whartonfintech Ally's Twitter: twitter.com/AllyMcCloskey Wharton FinTech Home: https://www.whartonfintech.org LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/wharton-fintech-club/ Suggest a Podcast Guest: https://airtable.com/shrdbokQPxAJzgVh7
Cryptocurrency is soaking up attention, but financial services technologies involving fiat currency have also never been hotter. This week we continue our special five-episode series on The Information 50, our annual list of the most promising startups valued at less than $1 billion, by taking a look at five fintech startups that made the cut. In this episode, The Information's Amir Efrati speaks with reporter Kate Clark about the startups that made our list, why “banking as a service” is on the rise, and why this year's record $87 billion in fintech startup funding doesn't represent the peak. Then Kate interviews Itai Damti, co-founder of Unit, the top startup on our list, and Henrique Dubugras, co-founder and co-CEO of corporate card startup Brex, about the fintech frenzy and what's coming next.
Look, launching your first product is tough. Of course. But as someone somewhere might've once said: It's the second product that can kill you. Henrique Dubugras launched Brex as a corporate credit card for early-stage companies. And the company's second product, Brex Cash, was met with high customer (and investor) expectations. But after a series of pushed releases and a bunch of missing tools, Henrique started questioning everything. Henrique talks about how he made the decisions to keep pushing the launch of the product, how he rethought the definition of success, and ultimately, pulled it all off. Learn more: The Shake Up HubSpot Podcast Network
Henrique Dubugras morou em vários lugares ao longo da vida. Passou por Campos do Jordão, Taubaté e até destinos internacionais, como Berlim e Whistler, no Canadá. Hoje, está em São Francisco nos Estados Unidos, onde se tornou conhecido como a pessoa mais jovem do mundo a fundar um unicórnio. Em 2017, ao lado do sócio Pedro Franceschi, fundou a Brex, startup que desburocratizou o serviço de oferta de cartões de crédito corporativos. Neste episódio, ele conta os aprendizados de sua trajetória como um jovem empreendedor e suas metas para o futuro.
Launching your first product is hard. But the second one? It can make or break your company. Henrique Dubugras launched Brex as a corporate credit card for early-stage companies. But as the company grew, their second product Brex Cash was met with weightier investor and customer expectations, missing tools, and one giant question mark over Henrique's head. Henrique talks about how he made the decisions around why he kept pushing the launch of the product, how he measured for success, and ultimately, pulled it all off. Learn more: The Shake Up HubSpot Podcast Network
Henrique Dubugras taught himself how to code as a teenager. He met his co-founder, Pedro Franceschi, over an argument on Twitter, which ended up turning them into best friends. The Brazilian tech duo went on to join teams at different startups and even start a few business projects. In 2013, they founded payments company Pagar.me — the Stripe of Brazil — when he was only sixteen years old.Pagar.me was sold in 2016, and Henrique enrolled at Stanford University. But he left after just a few months to follow his entrepreneurial instincts. In YC, him and Pedro started Brex, a B2B fintech that is an all-in-one finance for business, disrupting the century-old industry of banking small companies.Brex became a unicorn in record time. One year after its first product was released, it was valued at US$2.6Bn. Today, it's worth US$7Bn.In this episode, learn more about:Henrique's thoughts on fundraising and super high valuationsHow Henrique and Pedro make it work as co-CEOsAnd what is harder and easier about founding a company in the US vs in BrazilStarting something new?Visit latitud.com to learn about the Latitud Fellowship program.
My guest today is Henrique Dubugras, co-founder and CEO of Brex, an all-in-one finance account for businesses. Brex recently raised funding at a valuation of over 7 billion dollars despite being founded only four years ago. In our conversation, we cover Brex’s transition from a credit card for start-ups to the central account for businesses, why building that central account was orders of magnitude more difficult than expected, and the difference between building a business in Brazil and the US. We also discussed Henrique’s term horizon for building Brex and how that impacts his decision-making for the business. Please enjoy my conversation with Henrique Dubugras. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content, check out the episode page here. ----- This episode is brought to by Dell Technologies. Dell Technologies and Windows can help you upgrade your business tech with its Small Business Month specials. Save up to 45% on PCs with Windows 10 Pro— plus business docks, monitors & more. To learn more, call a Dell Technologies Advisor at 877-ASK-DELL or check out the deals at dell.com/en-us/work/shop/deals. ----- This episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep. Eight Sleep's new Pod Pro Cover is the easiest and fastest way to sleep at your perfect temperature. Simply add the Pod Pro Cover to your current mattress and start sleeping as cool as 55°F or as hot as 110°F. To embrace the future of sleep and get $150 off your new mattress, go to eightsleep.com/patrick or use code "Patrick." ----- Founder's Field Guide is a property of Colossus, Inc. For more episodes of Founder's Field Guide, visit joincolossus.com/episodes. Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here. Follow us on Twitter: @patrick_oshag | @JoinColossus Show Notes [00:02:53] - [First question] - The state of the B2B financial world before Brex [00:06:29] - How such a high margin space was generally underserved [00:08:24] - What the first version of the Brex card looked like [00:10:48] - How long it took to build and launch their infrastructure [00:11:13] - Why market penetration is so low for cards in B2B businesses [00:13:14] - How he thinks about this landscape in Brazil versus the US [00:14:55] - What interchange and high margins allows him to pass on to the consumer [00:16:23] - Brex’s first revenue event [00:17:38] - What the biggest hurdle was to overcome when they launched [00:19:02] - Key marketing strategy early on and what made it successful [00:21:16] - Continued distribution lessons they learned from their initial success [00:22:39] - Building an effective sales force to push their product [00:24:41] - What makes the current landscape so fertile for fintech businesses [00:27:12] - Analysis of their unique funding round dynamics [00:28:42] - Their second product and the insight that lead to that decision [00:31:05] - Darkest moments while trying to build their central account [00:31:50] - What their central account allows them to facilitate writ large [00:35:27] - Notable differences between entrepreneurship in Brazil versus the US [00:38:55] - Observations on inefficiencies in the US startup space [00:40:16] - Pros, cons, and costs of being largely remote [00:41:50] - Keys to building a successful hiring pipeline [00:44:05] - Lessons learned about decision making and optimization [00:45:39] - Developing an effective skill set to convince other people of anything [00:47:35] - What excites him about being a part of Brex lately [00:49:13] - What excites him about the future in general [00:50:39] - His business philosophy and the set of principles that guide him [00:52:03] - Nuances that make focusing on a single problem so attractive [00:53:51] - Long term infrastructure decisions that will pay off in the end [00:55:12] - Thoughts and hi perspective on cash flow in general [00:58:18] - The kindest thing anyone has ever done for him
Empatia. Esse é o "hack" que a Brex, fintech do Vale do Silício avaliada em US$ 7,4 bilhões, busca em seus funcionários. Neste episódio do Hackeando o Vale do Silício, Nelson Nectoux recebe Lucas Fox, líder de gestão de relacionamentos na startup. Fox compartilha como a empatia ajuda a Brex a melhorar a experiência do cliente e facilita a tomada de decisões. Ele explica, ainda, como o trabalho remoto possibilitou que a companhia expandisse seus horizontes, passando a contratar pessoas de todo o mundo (inclusive no Brasil!). A Brex é uma fintech criada pelos brasileiros Pedro Franceschi e Henrique Dubugras no Vale do Silício. A companhia, que iniciou disponibilizando cartões de crédito para startups, chamou atenção de investidores de todo o mundo e se tornou um unicórnio em menos de dois anos. Entenda como tem sido o desenvolvimento e os valores da Brex neste episódio. StartSe, a educação do agora. app.startse.com
Yesterday, Brex announced their Series D round, led by Tiger Global, which now valued them at $7.4 billion. Today, we share an episode of The Room Podcast that just couldn’t wait! Madison and Claudia sit down with Henrique Dubugras, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Brex in late March. For those who don’t know, Brex is the unicorn fintech startup that provides the all-in-one money and banking solution for startups. Both Brazilian natives, Henrique and his co-founder Pedro Franceschi founded Pagar.me before both attending, then dropping out of Stanford to found Brex. We discuss the key themes of deciding what market you are built for, the multi-time co-founder experience, and Brex’s decision to remain fully remote in the future. Let’s open the door.
Big Tech has a BIG week in earnings, as most of the FAANG names report their Q1 numbers this week. Tech investor and Palantir Co-Founder Joe Lonsdale joins CNBC's Carl Quintanilla, Jon Fortt & Deirdre Bosa today to talk his expectations for the biggest names in the industry. He also gave us his thoughts on Bitcoin after it's tough week and rallying weekend. Kara Swisher is also back with us today to give her two cents on the latest in the Facebook vs. Apple privacy feud. We're also covering GameStop letting CEO George Sherman walk away with millions and Tesla's EV competition in China. Then, an interview with the Henrique Dubugras, CEO of fintech unicorn Brex, receiving a $7.4 billion valuation. And lastly, we ask our viewers to write a joke for Elon Musk's upcoming SNL monologue in today's #crowdsource. The most entertaining of answers air on the show.
Why are startups like Stripe, Plaid, Brex, Ramp and Fast raising so much money so quickly? Cory talks about the phenomenon with Bain Capital Ventures partner Merritt Hummer and The Information's venture capital reporters Kate Clark and Berber Jin. Plus, an interview with Henrique Dubugras, co-CEO of Brex, a corporate credit card startup, about the pandemic, fintech valuations and company's future strategy.
As a self-taught teenage computer programmer in Brazil, Henrique Dubugras launched his first company, Pagar.me at age 16. After he sold it, Henrique was accepted and enrolled at Stanford, but dropped out early to follow his entrepreneurial instincts. This led him to co-found Brex with Pedro Franceschi, a business-to-business fintech unicorn disrupting the century old industry of banking small businesses.
In this episode, my guest is Henrique Dubugras, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Brex, a financial operating system for startups and growing companies, with services including a charge card, cash management, and controls in a single account. Originally from Brazil, Henrique built a payments company when he was only sixteen and in just three years grew it to process over $1.5 billion in processed transactions. Shortly thereafter, he co-founded Brex along with Pedro Franceschi. In this interview, we talk about: - Henrique’s story from entrepreneur, to Stanford student, to Stanford dropout and Brex co-founder - How he met his co-founder, Pedro, and their inspiration to launch Brex - Their significant decision to move Brex into a remote-first company and what that means for them - The importance of company culture and some key lessons for fintech founders - And a whole lot more! Henrique Dubugras Henrique Dubugras is Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Brex — the smartest corporate card in the room. A Brazilian entrepreneur, Henrique built payments company Pagar.me — the Stripe of Brazil — when he was sixteen years old. In just three years, Pagar.me grew to US$1.5 billion in volume of transactions processed. In the fall of 2016, Henrique sold Pagar.me and enrolled at Stanford University. After eight months, he left school and founded Brex. About Brex Brex is reimagining financial systems so every growing company can realize its full potential. By rebuilding from scratch the entire technology stack for credit card issuing, storing and transferring money, Brex has designed financial software that avoids previously painful banking problems. Traditional banking systems are broken; previously neither founders nor their businesses had access to great financial perks and benefits that their corporate counterparts enjoyed. Brex created products for fast moving companies that are intuitive, well designed, and have more powerful functionality than anything on the market. At its core, Brex exists to empower every growing company to dream bigger. In June 2018 Brex launched the first corporate card and rewards program designed for Startups. Brex reimagined every aspect of corporate cards, including 10-20x higher limits than traditional cards, tailored rewards with points on every purchase, and no personal guarantee for founders. This is a radically better experience for customers. In Fall 2019, Brex introduced its second product, Brex Cash. A first-of-its-kind cash management account that enables companies to simplify financial operations, pay for expenses and grow their business, all with zero fees. As a unified platform, Brex brings together the ability to store money and pay bills in a single, elegant dashboard replete with integrations to other financial software -- a new vision for the autonomous finance function. Having started as part of the Y Combinator accelerator program in 2017, the team has grown to over 400 people. Based in San Francisco, Brex has raised over US$465 million in venture capital, with support from Kleiner Perkins Growth, YC Continuity Fund, Greenoaks Capital, Ribbit Capital, IVP, DST, as well as fintech insiders like Peter Thiel and Max Levchin. Brex has also raised over $510 million in debt funding from Barclays. As of writing it is worth $3 billion.
Henrique DuBugras, the co-founder of Brex, the multibillion dollar payments company, jumps on the show as Fintech Beat’s first co-host and interviews Chris about fintech—and his research on Black financial regulators. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Em uma das atrações do Encontro Anual, voltado para a rede da Fundação Estudar (e, nesta edição, completamente virutal), Jorge Paulo Lemann, um dos fundadores do 3G Capital, integrado por grupos como AB InBev, Kraft Heinz e Lojas Americanas, conversou com Henrique Dubugras, Líder Estudar e um dos fundadores da Brex, fintech bilionária com sede no Vale do Silício. Na conversa entre os dois, reflexões sobre passado e futuro dos negócios, sobre bons empreendedores e sobre particularidades de empreender no Brasil e em outros lugares - como os Estados Unidos e, mais especificamente, o Vale do Silício, conhecido como centro de inovações e de empresas de tecnologia que revolucionam mercados. Experiências de gerações distantes que, neste bate-papo, se complementam e pintam um cenário sobre personalidades bem distintas, mas com grande sucesso no mundo dos negócios.
Em uma das atrações do Encontro Anual, voltado para a rede da Fundação Estudar (e, nesta edição, completamente virutal), Jorge Paulo Lemann, um dos fundadores do 3G Capital, integrado por grupos como AB InBev, Kraft Heinz e Lojas Americanas, conversou com Henrique Dubugras, Líder Estudar e um dos fundadores da Brex, fintech bilionária com sede no Vale do Silício. Na conversa entre os dois, reflexões sobre passado e futuro dos negócios, sobre bons empreendedores e sobre particularidades de empreender no Brasil e em outros lugares - como os Estados Unidos e, mais especificamente, o Vale do Silício, conhecido como centro de inovações e de empresas de tecnologia que revolucionam mercados. Experiências de gerações distantes que, neste bate-papo, se complementam e pintam um cenário sobre personalidades bem distintas, mas com grande sucesso no mundo dos negócios.
No primeiro episódio do "Hackeando o Vale do Silício", Nelson Nectoux, sócio da StartSe, recebe Lucas Fox e Gabriel Guimarães. Os dois brasileiros trabalham na Brex, uma das startups mais quentes do Vale do Silício. Eles discutem como a startup chegou ao valor de mercado de US$ 2,6 bilhões em dois anos e qual é a cultura da empresa. A Brex, é uma fintech fundada por Pedro Franceschi e Henrique Dubugras (também brasileiros!). Criada em 2017, tem como principal produto um cartão de crédito corporativo para startups. A solução auxilia essas empresas em suas dificuldades de obter crédito ao oferecer limites maiores do que as opções convencionais. Além disso, a Brex auxilia que as empresas façam o gerenciamento de suas despesas, pois cada funcionário pode receber um cartão com um limite controlado.
Hoje nosso convidado especial é Henrique Dubugras, Co-founder e co-CEO da Brex, uma das Fintechs de maior sucesso do Vale nos últimos anos e avaliada em 2.6 bilhões de dólares em sua última rodada de fundraising em 2020.Henrique é Brasileiro, tem surpreendentemente apenas 24 anos, e já fundou e escalou a BREX com seu sócio e co-CEO Pedro Franceschi. Esse é o segundo empreendimento juntos após vender a Pagar.me, outra Fintech que fundaram juntos no Brasil alguns anos atrás.Nesse bate-papo, falamos sobre como Henrique se preparou para ter essa carreira meteórica, como funciona fundraising no Vale e no Brasil nos diferentes estágios de crescimento da empresa, e sobre sua motivação de continuar focado em escalar o negócio.Pra você que tem interesse em empreendedorismo, aprender as melhores práticas de fundraising e como funciona escalar uma empresa tanto no Brasil como no Vale, essa conversa está fascinante.Sem mais delongas, acompanhe nosso bate-papo com Henrique Dubugras.
Henrique Dubugras of Brex joins Nick to discuss the Blazing Fast Path to $B+; Binary Outcomes; The Fintech Revolution; and A New Approach to Employee Comp. In this episode, we cover: Background -- path that led to Brex? Origin story for Brex Tag-line / One sentence overview What's so different about Brex? Why is more than just a credit card? How has the pandemic affected the business thus far? What do you offer that no one else does? Who do you consider to be competition? What is the moat here - why can't another well funded startup replicate your offering? A criticism I've heard is that, when businesses need credit most, when bank balance/working capital is low, is when Brex cuts off access to credit. What's your response? How would you describe your leadership philosophy? Are you recruiting/hiring? Is the approach different while 100% remote? What's the compensation structure at Brex? One of the fastest companies to multi-billion+ valuation -- more pressure w/ all that capital? With the raise and expectations some suggest that the outcome is binary -- is it? What advice do you have for early-stage, pre-A, founders trying to build a venture scale business? To listen more, please visit http://fullratchet.net/podcast-episodes/ for all of our other episodes. Also, follow us on twitter @TheFullRatchet for updates and more information.
Co-founded by Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi, two engineers who previously founded one of the largest payment processors in Brazil, Brex, is now valued at well over $2 billion dollars and is backed by high profile investors, including Paypal co-founders Max Levchin and Peter Thiel, Y Combinator, Ribbit Capital, Yuri Milner, and Carl Pascarella, former CEO of Visa. In this episode, we talk to Larissa Rocha, Employee No. 1 at BREX, the ultimate corporate credit card for Startups which doesn’t require a personal guarantee and has the ability to issue cards instantly while providing higher limits than traditional options on the market. The card also provides points and rewards more suitable and relevant for startups.Join us as we discuss how as a fintech, BREX is adapting and helping other startups with cash flow and cash management. Links discussed on the episode:- Brex's Response to COVID-19 includes new WFH rewards, learn more at brex.com/remotecollaboration- Webinars and other resources for Startups, go to brex.com/blog
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Henrique Dubugras is Co-Founder & CEO of Brex — the first corporate card for startups. A Brazilian entrepreneur, Henrique built payments company Pagar.me — the Stripe of Brazil — when he was 16. In three years, Pagar.me grew to $1.5 billion in volume of transactions processed. Prior to Pagar.me, Henrique built a number of online businesses in Brazil including an education company and a dating application.
Paul-Henri Ferrand is the Chief Operating Officer of Brex. Brex, the corporate card that accelerates entrepreneurs and scaling businesses, is founded by Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi, two engineers who previously founded Pagar.me, a Brazil payment processing company. Brex has raised $315M in equity and $510M in debt, and is backed by the co-founders of PayPal (Max Levchin and Peter Thiel), Y Combinator, Ribbit Capital, Greenoaks Capital, DST Global, IVP, and Carl Pascarella (former CEO of Visa). Before becoming COO of Brex, Paul-Henri was President, Global Customer Operations for Google Cloud, and before that President of Dell US. In this episode, Paul-Henri discusses why he moved from leading an enormous public company, to helping execute at a startup. He contrasts the cultures of the various companies – Dell, Google and Brex, and discusses what it means to “consumerize finance”. We also discuss why immigrants (Paul-Henri is an immigrant to the US, as are with both founders of Brex) find the US so appealing, and appear to be behind some of the great Silicon Valley companies. Finally, we discuss the importance of culture and leadership lessons learned at Dell, Google and now Brex. Brex www.brex.com Something Ventured www.somethingventured.us
This season we’re speaking with entrepreneurs who have successfully scaled and sold their companies with a particular focus on the exit. In the Season 4 finale we hear from someone who has experienced a wide variety of exit scenarios, Henrique Dubugras. Henrique is the co-CEO of Brex - a fintech startup valued at over two billion dollars. But Henrique’s entrepreneurial journey started while programming video games when he was a preteen living in Brazil. And while Henrique is still in his early 20s, he’s already started five companies and has so much to share with us. In this episode we make sure to dive into his decision making processes at several key moments of his entrepreneurial experience. Thank you all for joining us for another exciting season of Access and Opportunity. While we work on Season 5, check out more of our content on the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Innovation and Opportunity page. https://www.morganstanley.com/what-we-do/inclusive-innovation-and-opportunityThe guest speakers are neither employees nor affiliated with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC. (“Morgan Stanley”). The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of Morgan Stanley. The information and figures contained herein has been obtained from sources outside of Morgan Stanley and Morgan Stanley makes no representations or guarantees as to the accuracy or completeness of information or data from sources outside of Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley is not responsible for the information or data contained in this podcast.This podcast does not provide individually tailored investment advice and is not a solicitation of any offer to buy or sell any security or other financial instrument or to participate in any trading strategy. It has been prepared without regard to the individual financial circumstances and objectives of persons who receive it.© 2019 Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Members SIPC
Welcome to the Tearsheet Podcast. I'm Zack Miller. Brex is one of the fastest growing fintech startups in history — it may be the fastest growing startup in history. The company, founded by two Brazilian Stanford grads, began with a straightforward premise — to launch a corporate credit card that accelerates entrepreneurs and scaling businesses. From there, it’s moved into rewards and travel programs tailored to specific industries. And recently, the firm launched Brex Cash, a business cash management account that helps companies simplify their financial operations and grow their businesses. Brex co-founder Henrique Dubugras joins me on the podcast to talk about the evolution of the company’s product portfolio and the company’s plans for the near future. From there, he shares his views on where the payments industry is headed in 2020 and beyond. Henrique Dubugras is my guest on the Tearsheet Podcast. Before we jump into the podcast, I wanted to introduce you to Outlier, Tearsheet’s leading membership program. It’s designed for top fintech and financial service professionals to stay on top daily of the biggest trends, the top companies, and the leaders of this next generation of finance. Find out more about it at www.tearsheet.co/outlier
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Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Henrique Dubugras of Brex.com which provides a corporate credit card for startups. In this episode, Henrique talks about the genesis of Brex and "why the world needed another credit card," why he believes raising capital at a high valuation is key to extending runway, why getting as many investors on your cap table as possible is a good strategy, why he always insists on basic ("plain vanilla") terms in a term sheet, and much more. The Company most recently raised a $100 million Series C-2 venture round led by Kleiner Perkins. Ribbit Capital, Greenoaks Capital Partners, DST Global, IVP, Human Capital (San Francisco), G Squared and Y Combinator also participated in the round. Previous investors include Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Elad Gil and many others. EXCLUSIVE DEAL: signup for a Brex credit card at https://brex.com/foundersuite/ and get fees waived for life + $250 cash back plus no personal guarantees, higher limits, and other features. New customers only. Note: Applicants must be funded by professional investors (accredited angels or VCs) or be above $100k MRR if self-funded. This series is produced by Foundersuite, makers of software to raise capital and manage investor relations. Foundersuite's customers have raised over $1.5 Billion since 2016. Create a free account at www.foundersuite.com.
Startup Grind Global Conference 2019 About the Speaker: Pedro Franceschi is Co-Founder of Brex — the first of its kind corporate card for startups. A Brazilian entrepreneur, Pedro built Pagar.me — the Stripe of Brazil — along with his co-founder Henrique Dubugras. At Pagar.me, Pedro was responsible for all technology and operations, scaling the company to over 100 people and establishing it as a leader in the Brazilian payments ecosystem.
On this round-table episode of Talking Points, co-CEO and co-founder Henrique Dubugras and head of Brex partnerships and rewards Thomas Piani explain what sets the Brex corporate card apart; what their latest product, Brex Cash, is; and how they've built a company worth over $2.5 billion. Host Brian Kelly shares his skepticism about whether this card holds up against other popular business cards, and looks into the strategy behind their generous bonus categories. He also finds out which of the seven airline partners Brex cardholders utilize the most and why they introduced a physical lounge right from the start. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Henrique Dubugras, CEO of Brex (the fintech unicorn that just reached a valuation of $2.6 billion after launching their first product a year ago) chats with Bloomberg's Julie Verhage at the Future of Fintech Conference. This conversation was recorded on June 13, 2019.
No CAFÉ COM INVESTIDOR, Daniel Ibri, sócio do Mindset Ventures, explica sua estratégia, revela uma nova captação de mais de US$ 50 milhões, avalia o mercado brasileiro de venture capital e conta como descobriu Henrique Dubugras, sócio da Brex, uma das startups queridinhas do Vale do Silício
Having just raised at a $2.6bn valuation, Brex is changing the credit card landscape with a novel approach to underwriting and software. Henrique Dubugras, founder and CEO of Brex, walks us through how his company is revolutionizing one vertical at a time as it scales across an incredibly complex and highly regulated industry. Additionally, Henrique shares his reflections on building a sales organization and measuring marketing ROI.
Brex co-founder and CEO, Henrique Dubugras, and IVP investor, Parsa Saljoughian, discuss how the company is rebuilding B2B financial products, why leveraging hard-earned advantages is a must and how to prioritize hiring to build a hypergrowth company.Support the show (https://www.ivp.com/)
Brex Co-Founder and CEO Henrique Dubugras will talk about what he's learned building the fastest-growing B2B company. Henrique started his first company at 16 and has now built two successful companies from nothing. Learn what he did differently the second time around and the specific decisions he made to drive growth among B2B companies with Brex. Missed the session? Here’s what Henrique talks about: How Brex grew from a few basic functionalities to a corporation Growing from $0 to $2B in ARR in less than two years. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin SaaStr Henrique Dubugras
Building a credit card company from scratch. Raising over $200 million at 20 years old. Dropping out of Stanford and how a CEO’s responsibilities evolve. www.ansarada.com
Henrique Dubugras is the founder and CEO of Brex. The company is valued at over $1.1 billion and has raised over $220 million. Current investors include Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, DST Global, Ribbit Capital, Global Founders Capital, or Institutional Venture Partners to name a few. Prior to Brex, he cofounded Pagar.me. The company got acquired in 2016. Before this he built an educational platform and a gaming company at age 12.
Henrique Dubugras is the cofounder of Brex, which provides corporate cards for startups.Anu Hariharan is a Partner at YC.Brex went through YC in the Winter 2017 batch and just closed their Series B, which was led by YC Continuity.In addition to discussing how the Brex team built out their service, Anu and Henrique also cover the specifics of what it takes to build a fintech startup in 2018. And Henrique shares advice for young founders, as he started his first company at 16.Read the transcript on our blog.
Meu convidado de hoje é o Henrique Dubugras do Pagar.me Site do Henrique: https://pagar.me/ Contato: henrique@pagar.me | https://br.linkedin.com/in/henriquedubugras/pt Apps Recomendados: Inbox do Google Livros Recomendados: Hard things about hard Conheça o Contabilizei: http://bit.ly/descontabilizei Contribua com... O post Empreendedor a todo Vapor – 0236 – Henrique Dubugras do Pagar.me apareceu primeiro em Empreendedor a todo Vapor.
Conversamos com Henrique Dubugras, um dos fundadores da plataforma Pagar.Me. Na entrevista, Dubugras fala sobre a experiência de estabelecer a startup que nasceu com o objetivo de oferecer uma estrutura capaz de articular a área de pagamentos das lojas online aos sites dos bancos e às operadoras de cartão de crédito, possibilitando aos usuários a realização de compras com boleto, cartão de crédito ou transferência bancária. O entrevistado resgata a breve história da empresa, destacando o modelo avesso aos processos manuais, com o objetivo de ganhar tempo e eliminar custos. Dubrugas ressalta, ainda, a lógica que orienta o processo de contratação da empresa, que busca profissionais igualmente proativos e ambiciosos. Entrevista gravada em 13 de maio de 2015.
Conversamos com Henrique Dubugras, um dos fundadores da plataforma Pagar.Me. Na entrevista, Dubugras fala sobre a experiência de estabelecer a startup que nasceu com o objetivo de oferecer uma estrutura capaz de articular a área de pagamentos das lojas online aos sites dos bancos e às operadoras de cartão de crédito, possibilitando aos usuários a realização de compras com boleto, cartão de crédito ou transferência bancária. O entrevistado resgata a breve história da empresa, destacando o modelo avesso aos processos manuais, com o objetivo de ganhar tempo e eliminar custos. Dubrugas ressalta, ainda, a lógica que orienta o processo de contratação da empresa, que busca profissionais igualmente proativos e ambiciosos. Entrevista gravada em 13 de maio de 2015.