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Pedro Franceschi

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Founder & CEO @BrexHQ , helping 30k companies make every dollar count with integrated cards, banking, expenses, travel, and bill pay -- globally.

Menlo Park, CA

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Joined April 2008

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Pedro Franceschi

3 months

Today we’re announcing our 24’ Summer release at @BrexHQ ! ☀️ AI-powered accounting with continuous close (first software ever to do so), two completely redesigned products, and a blazing-fast new UI with 100+ improvements that make Brex the most powerful *and* simple it’s ever

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Pedro Franceschi

5 days

Switching to founder mode is the best thing I’ve done at Brex in many years. What it means for us in practice: 1) Having a single roadmap for the entire company, where I’m the editor of what ships in each release. 2) Eliminate people manager roles. Leaders must operate at all

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Founder Mode:

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Pedro Franceschi

3 years

Is this person going to scale? If you work at a startup, you’ve certainly heard this question before. :) What I learned about people that scale.

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Pedro Franceschi

1 year

Brex is now offering an emergency bridge credit line for SVB customers to meet their operational spending needs. Apply here:

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SVB Emergency line

Learn more about the Brex business account and our emergency bridge credit line announcement for SVB customers.

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

🧵 Three Myths of Headcount Headcount is a topic of huge debate in any startup. It's your largest expense, and many people see it as a silver bullet. It isn’t. 👇 Here’s three myths of headcount.

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

🧵 Yesterday we made the difficult decision to stop serving traditional small businesses at @brexHQ . Brex remains deeply committed to serving startups, so let me explain how we got to this (painful) decision, and why it allows us to serve startups even better.

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Pedro Franceschi

3 months

Today Brex is launching a new, supercharged banking experience for startups with @Stripe and @Column 🏦 The banking process can be difficult for new founders — especially non-U.S. residents. They often have to wait 5+ weeks for an EIN from the IRS before they can even apply for

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Pedro Franceschi

11 months

The single biggest predictor of leadership success at @brexHQ can be summarized in 6 words: ability to operate at all levels. Sent this note to our managers last week.

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Operate at all levels

Our co-founder and co-CEO shared his thoughts this week on a simple model for what successful leadership is.

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

It's a hard day at @brexHQ today. We made the incredibly difficult decision to reduce our team by 11%. Today is about treating those leaving with the compassion and respect they deserve. More here:

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A message from Pedro

Our co-founder and co-CEO sent an email to the Brex team today to share a difficult message.

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Pedro Franceschi

3 years

Something that never stops to surprise me: as the company scales, good intentions don't matter. The only thing that matters is having systems that enforce the right behavior by default. Don't ask your team to do X. Create a system that makes it impossible not to do X.

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Pedro Franceschi

6 months

I frequently write to our team about how Brex is doing, and my learnings over the past 7 years. This time, I decided to share them externally. What's happening at @brexHQ 7 weeks after our layoff, me moving back to the Bay Area, and the beginning of Brex 3.0.

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

ChatGPT is coming to @brexHQ , and this is just the beginning. We're rethinking our entire roadmap around AI, and how we can bring superpowers to Finance teams. The future of software is here! 🚀

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Brex

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🚨 Huge Empower News! We are working with @OpenAI to bring advanced AI-powered tools for CFOs and their teams. The new features will provide relevant insights on corporate spend and answer critical business questions all in real-time. Learn more:

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Pedro Franceschi

1 year

4,000 new customers and $2 billion in deposits: How Brex sprang into action as Silicon Valley Bank collapsed

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How Brex sprang into action as Silicon Valley Bank collapsed

Traditional banks can take over a week to open a business account. Brex has digitized account-opening processes like Know Your Customer, making it far more nimble.

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Pedro Franceschi

3 years

We spent so much time building a super polished mobile experience at Brex. Highly recommend checking it out!

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Pedro Franceschi

3 years

1/13 We’re thrilled to announce Brex Premium today! With Premium, @BrexHQ now replaces your bank account, credit card, Expensify and , all in a single, integrated product experience. More details in 🧵

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Pedro Franceschi

3 years

1/ Mental health is still something people shy away from discussing, especially in hyper-growth companies. It shouldn’t be this way, so I shared my own journey with the Brex team recently. Here’s my story. 🧵

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My journey with mental health

Pedro shares his journey with mental health with the Brex team.

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Pedro Franceschi

1 year

How @BrexHQ is supporting SVB customers.

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How Brex is supporting SVB customers and the broader startup community

Brex is working around the clock to support SVB customers and the broader startup community through this challenging time. Learn more.

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Pedro Franceschi

4 years

I wrote this essay to the team at @brexHQ about the importance that a Growth Mindset had my life. I thought a lot before sharing it externally, but the team really encouraged me to - thank you. :)

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

I’m proud to announce Catharsis, a new program from @BrexHQ to normalize mental health talk and connect founders to mental health professionals. 🧵

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A program to normalize mental health and provide resources for founders.

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

I’m so excited to announce Brex Empower, a new software platform to increase the speed of businesses and create a culture of trust and financial discipline. More in 🧵below.

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Accelerating the future of business.

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Pedro Franceschi

8 months

Building > creating Twitter noise with fake data. :)

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Henrique Dubugras

8 months

Founders, pro tip: when you ask your VCs to post wrong data trying to cause FUD on your competitors, make sure they have their info right otherwise your company looks bad!

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Pedro Franceschi

9 days

When validating the idea for @brexHQ , whether or not people wanted cards wasn’t a question. How we could properly execute issuance was. There was no Marqeta or Stripe Issuing. Anyone who wanted to issue cards had to build the technology from the ground up. So, early on, we

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

If a team can’t hit a goal 3-6 months away because of headcount, they’ve already lost it. It takes 3+ months to hire and onboard a great person. New hires won't contribute to your goal, and time invested in hiring will make you slower.

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Pedro Franceschi

3 years

Excited to solve one of the largest pain points of startup founders: unnecessary dilution. I wish this product existed when we started Brex. :)

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Brex

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We’re excited to introduce a brand-new product, Brex Venture Debt, that allows venture-backed technology companies in the Brex ecosystem to take their businesses to the next level with less dilution.

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Pedro Franceschi

2 months

When building Brex 3.0, we set a clear bar for what we ship: to build things we’re insanely proud of. Here’s what I learned about how great work actually happens. I started coding when I was 9. I don’t know why I started, but I continued doing it because of a very specific

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Pedro Franceschi

4 months

Thrilled that @brexHQ is #4 on CNBC disruptors list this year! 🚀Since we started Brex, our customers: 1. Automated 11 million hours of busywork 2. Kept $50b+ of spend on budget, automatically 3. Earned $350m/year in financial income 4. Got $650m in rewards to accelerate growth

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

Instead of adding headcount, here’s two things that actually increase output: having exceptionally talented leaders, and reducing the number of things that compete for their attention.

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Pedro Franceschi

1 year

I met Victor 10 years ago, and it's impossible to overstate the impact he's had in my life and Brex. He's one of the smartest founders I know, and soon-to-be one of the best investors of this generation. Benchmark is lucky to have him.

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victor lazarte

@victoralazarte

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Thrilled to join @benchmark as a General Partner. I am inspired by the founders that partnered with the firm to build so many iconic companies and determined to see where uncompromising commitment to entrepreneurs can take us.

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Pedro Franceschi

3 years

When you need something done, ask the busiest person. They will always find the time. :)

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Pedro Franceschi

8 months

A hard day at @brexHQ . Feeling so grateful for the folks that helped us build Brex into what it is today.

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A Message from Pedro

Today, Brex Founder and co-CEO Pedro Franceschi sent the following note to Brex employees:

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Pedro Franceschi

1 year

Insane polish, almost a year in the making. Really proud of the team for shipping our new mobile app!

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Brex

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📲 We launched a redesigned mobile app that is more intuitive, elegant, and easy to use for spending and closing out expenses. Take a look 👀

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Pedro Franceschi

23 days

Large meetings: a recipe to go nowhere fast.

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Pedro Franceschi

1 year

We're launching Brex Payables today! Finance teams now have full control over procurement spend, effortlessly managing invoices and purchase cards alongside T&E in a single global platform. Check it out at

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AP automation software | Automate your accounts payable

Brex's AP automation software saves your accounts payable team time and money. Manage procurement spend across invoices and purchase cards, all in one place.

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

Myth 3️⃣: headcount is the limiting factor for speed Truth 3️⃣: leadership bandwidth is the bottleneck

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Pedro Franceschi

1 year

Brex Travel launches today, after one year in the making. One of the most polished experiences we've ever built, with the entire travel experience inside Empower. It's so good I miss it every time I have a personal trip. Thanks to the team at @brexHQ and all our beta customers!

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Brex

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Today is the official launch of Brex travel! ✈️ We are now the most unified global spend platform, providing travel booking and management — along with corporate cards, expense management, reimbursements, travel, business accounts, and bill pay — all on

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Pedro Franceschi

3 years

Shared this note with the Brex team today about gratitude and happiness. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

Lessons learned: 1. We should have been more transparent with the startup community about what this means to them. 2. Customers expect a partner that scales with them. Multi-year plans should take it into account. 3. Focus is painful, but it’s what gives meaning to our choices.

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Pedro Franceschi

1 year

Big news here at @brexHQ ! Today we launched Brex AI and Brex Assistant to reduce expense busywork by 10x to improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of employees and finance teams. Learn more at !

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Pedro Franceschi

3 months

And yes, two massive @brexHQ product releases in two weeks. And two more big things coming soon. The team is cooking with gas over here! 🍳

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Pedro Franceschi

1 year

The last two days in the startup banking industry have been extraordinary, and we are saddened to see the impact to an industry peer that served so many in the startup community. Our customer have asked about risk to their @BrexHQ accounts. You can read

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How Brex business accounts work

Our accounts have money movement features similar to banks — but with key differences that limit your exposure to any individual bank.

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Pedro Franceschi

7 months

In the spirit of onward and upward, today I wanted to share the details of @brexHQ 's Winter 2024 Release, which includes a new smarter Brex bill pay with marquee features we think you’ll love.

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Pedro Franceschi

3 years

Today @brexHQ is launching crypto rewards - the first (and easiest!) way for businesses to get into crypto. We're excited to lower the friction for companies to adopt crypto, and rewards is just the beginning. Onwards!

@brexHQ

Brex

3 years

We believe cryptocurrency will play an important role in the future of finance. That’s why starting today, @brexHQ customers can redeem their Brex rewards points for #BTC and #ETH . Learn more here:

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

We’re announcing something big tomorrow. :)

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Brex

2 years

Something big is brewing here at @BrexHQ . Join our founders, @pedroh96 and @hdubugras , here on Twitter Live on Wednesday, 9AM PT to learn more.

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Pedro Franceschi

3 months

Our Summer Release wasn’t the only thing Brex shipped last week... 👀 I'm excited to share our latest brand campaign! 🔥 We built it using the same principle as the release: helping customers make every dollar count. No great company was ever built on savings alone. Our goal

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

The constraint is not headcount. It's leadership. And if there’s something that a focused environment provides, it is a unique opportunity for new leaders to emerge and play a critical role. Use it. 😊

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Pedro Franceschi

3 years

@pk_iv Hey Paul - Brex founder here. If you’re open to it, would love to learn more about your experience, and how we can improve Cash. DMs are open.

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

Focus can be painful, but it’s what gives meaning to our choices. Do it.

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

We held our company-wide off-site at @brexHQ last week in Denver, with over 1,000 folks. Incredible energy, one of our most memorable moments as a company. By far the best part of my job is working with so many amazing people. :) PS: we're hiring!

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Work at Brex We dream big, in life and at work. Helping our customers reach their full potential starts with helping our team reach theirs.

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Brex

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We’ve grown a lot since 2019. #OneBrex

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Pedro Franceschi

4 years

After a year-long journey of self-discovery, I'm so excited to announce the rebrand of @BrexHQ , and how we plan on helping every growing company realize their full potential!

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Rebranding Brex

We’re incredibly excited to reveal Brex’s new brand today!

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

Column is amazing — never thought a banking partner could be this good. Very glad to be customers at @brexHQ . Congrats on the launch, @williamhockey and Annie!

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Column

2 years

We’re pumped to publicly announce what we’ve been working on. We’re the first nationally chartered bank built for developers and builders.

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Pedro Franceschi

4 years

Estou super feliz de anunciar que o Brex está contratando engenheiros no Brasil! O trabalho será 100% remoto, todos os funcionários recebem ações da empresa e pagamento em dolar. Se estiver interessado - pode aplicar aqui:

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Work at Brex We dream big, in life and at work. Helping our customers reach their full potential starts with helping our team reach theirs.

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Pedro Franceschi

6 months

The @brexHQ Cybertruck is out!

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Brex

6 months

Spotted: Brex in SF, repping the #smartestcard on the road. 💳 🔥 Want to see your company's name in lights in Times Square? Snap a photo of the Brex truck in the wild, post it to your social media, and tag @brexhq to be entered to win a NYC billboard! We'll be on the road for

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Pedro Franceschi

3 years

Super excited that @_karandeep is joining us at @brexHQ to lead product. He's beyond impressive and we're so lucky to have him. Welcome, Karan! And yes, we raised our Series D-2 :)

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Pedro Franceschi

1 year

Excited to have @_karandeep and @getCos on stage in our AI in Finance event, announcing Brex AI and Brex Assistant! @brexHQ

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Pedro Franceschi

4 years

Brex is now a remote-first company, and I couldn’t be more excited about the possibilities ahead of us! Our guiding principle for Remote is to clone the internet, and not the office. Here’s our thoughts on how:

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Remote-first at Brex

Six months after COVID-19 started, Henrique and I decided to make Brex a remote-first company. We wrote this memo to our team explaining…

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Pedro Franceschi

1 year

Local currency cards, local reimbursements, VAT tracking and multi-entity support in 45 countries and 20 currencies. Go global with Brex! 🚀🌎

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Brex

1 year

🌎Big news! Brex now offers even more global capabilities, enabling companies to spend globally and operate locally. With Brex, you can: ✅ Operate in more countries and currencies than any other provider by issuing cards and locally funding reimbursements in over 20

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

Brex now supports global teams in 100+ countries with cards and spend management! 🌎 As an immigrant, I'm really passionate about leveling the playing field and providing the same tools US employees love to teams in any country. Onwards to a more distributed world! 🚀

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Brex

2 years

We’re going global. 🌎 Get ready for card acceptance in 100+ countries, global reimbursements in local currency, 24/7 support, enhanced security, and more. Learn about it here:

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Pedro Franceschi

5 years

Thrilled to announce Brex Cash! I couldn't be more proud of the team at @brexHQ for making it possible! And incredibly optimistic for the future of this product - Brex is just getting started :) Get the details:

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

When a project isn’t going according to plan, we flirt with the idea of adding more headcount to make it go faster. There’s been zero times where headcount saved a project on a bad trajectory.

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Pedro Franceschi

3 years

Billboards were a big part of our growth strategy in a pre-COVID world. This thread is a good recap. :)

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Trung Phan

3 years

1/ Brex raised new funding at a $7.4B valuation. Interestingly, the corporate card startup launched in 2018 with a very successful $300k out-of-home (OOH) ad campaign. Here's a breakdown of Brex's OOH strategy 🧵

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Pedro Franceschi

1 year

We open-sourced our Prompt Engineering crash course at @brexHQ . Amazing content on how to use LLMs at scale from @stevekrenzel !

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Brex

1 year

🤖 Brex Engineering has been integrating GPT-4 into our product over the last few months. We wrote an internal guide covering everything our teams needed to know to quickly start building on LLMs in a reliable way. This week we open-sourced that guide. ⬇️

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Pedro Franceschi

3 years

The best banking experience for ecommerce sellers! :)

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Brex

3 years

A few weeks ago we launched Instant Payouts, which allowed customers to access payouts within minutes. Today, we're excited to share we've expanded the capabilities of Instant Payouts to include @paypal , @square , and @Stripe !

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

Having money is also not an excuse to hire more. Because it’s so easy to throw money at problems, you should be even more cautious. Hiring more salespeople outside of CAC constraints doesn’t help. Growth at all costs makes things worse.

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

The difference between great and bad projects is not headcount – it’s leadership. It’s easy to mix the two, because great projects tend to have more headcount. But that's only true because these projects were going well, and the company decided to double down on them.

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

@samdblond Sam Blond at its best. :)

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Pedro Franceschi

5 years

Exciting to have @BrexHQ in the New York Times today, which talks about some of the really unique things we have done to help businesses grow!

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Bad Times in Tech? Not if You’re a Start-Up Serving Other Start-Ups (Published 2019)

Meet the two Stanford dropouts, both 23, who run Brex, which provides charge cards to start-ups. Its growth is a sign of Silicon Valley’s unflagging exuberance.

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Pedro Franceschi

1 month

Huge congrats to our customers who made it to @Forbes Cloud 100 list alongside Brex, including @AnthropicAI , @airtable , @wiz_io and so many others!

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Brex

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Brex has been named to @Forbes Cloud 100 List for 2024! 🎉 We're honored to be listed among so many phenomenal companies that are shaping the future of the cloud space, and are proud to see so many Brex customers & partners named alongside us—including @airtable , @wiz_io ,

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Pedro Franceschi

5 months

100+ public companies now run on Brex! Here’s the Brex Index.

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Brex

6 months

Congrats to @Reddit on their IPO—big news for the tech industry! 🙂 Here at Brex, we serve companies from startup to IPO and beyond, including over 100 public companies like DoorDash, Robinhood, Warby Parker, and Hims. And those impressive public companies make up our Brex Index,

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

Myth 2️⃣: headcount is allocated by team Truth 2️⃣: headcount is allocated by company priority

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Pedro Franceschi

1 year

is an awesome @brexHQ customer! Glad to be supporting their growth. :)

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Amjad Masad

1 year

It’s such a great feeling when you finally complete your product vision and you can approach your marketing with boldness and authenticity (still can’t get myself to pay for marketing tho, so thank you brex)

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Pedro Franceschi

6 years

Happy to announce Brex! We’ve been working on it for the last year and a half - Brex!

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Brex picks up $57M to build an easy credit card for startups | TechCrunch

While Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi were giving up on their augmented reality startup inside Y Combinator and figuring out what to do next, they

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

Myth 1️⃣: headcount impacts short-term goals Truth 1️⃣: headcount impacts goals in the next 6-9 months

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Pedro Franceschi

1 year

Exciting! We've been using it at @brexHQ and it's really awesome to have a visual IDE for designing AI agents.

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Cai GoGwilt

1 year

🚀 Today, we've open-sourced Rivet, a game-changer for #AI agents! We just launched our first AI agent at @ironclad_inc . But I almost gave up on it, until Andy build v0 of Rivet and showed me what was possible. Let us know what you think!

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Pedro Franceschi

3 years

Thrilled to launch the @brexHQ API today! One of our largest customer asks, and one of the best things we've shipped this year. We couldn't have done it without a cultural and technical shift to deliver a great developer-first experience. More here:

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Building the Brex API

We’re excited to launch the Brex API this week! Now, customers can programmatically read their data, issue cards, invite users, send payments and much more.

@brexHQ

Brex

3 years

The Brex API is ready for you to build on. You’ll now see a new developer section in your Brex dashboard’s settings page. Create API tokens in seconds and follow our example guides to start building and benefiting fast. Learn more at

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Pedro Franceschi

3 months

This was a fun one! We go deep into how @brexHQ is building the only vertically integrated spend platform on the planet, and what our deep investment to own the financial infrastructure means to our customers. Check it out.

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Simon Taylor

3 months

Does being vertically integrated unlock global scale for Fintech companies? Brex believes it does. Here's why 👇 🎧 Exclusive Interview: @brexHQ Co-CEO @pedroh96 How Being Vertically Integrated Unlocks Global Scale Brex a category. Life before Brex was terrible for founders

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Pedro Franceschi

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Oh yes, forgot to mention that I also DJed for everyone! :D

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Ammaar Reshi

2 years

@pedroh96 @brexHQ we will never forget DJ Pedro 🔥

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

If you believe we made a mistake offboarding you, please let us know at reopen @brex .com If you received any kind of funding, or are part of the startup community (crypto, angel investor, VC, etc), @brexHQ remains deeply committed to serving you.

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A profound realization for me… If I were to write a book on how to start a company, I'd split it in two parts, each equally important: initial conditions (first 6 months) and tailwinds (the 10 years that follow). More on my interview with @HarryStebbings .

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Harry Stebbings

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2 months

There are two core stages to building a mega company. 1️⃣ Finding the right idea, and building the right team to execute. 2️⃣ The 10 year journey of leveraging that tailwind. @pedroh96 🦄 Everyone underestimates the importance of finding the right idea. Love your thoughts on

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However, we still had tens of thousands of small businesses with very different needs from fast-growing companies. And by spreading ourselves too thin, we couldn’t serve either small businesses or startups well.

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Pedro Franceschi

3 months

How BD actually happens in a startup.

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Art Levy

3 months

You’re one well-crafted cold email away from speaking with (literally) whomever you want. Then you'll have to jump on a plane (per yesterday's tweet). This has helped me land huge partners for Brex. Here are my pro tips for writing that actually gets shit done.

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More context on 1: More context on 2:

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Operate at all levels

Our co-founder and co-CEO shared his thoughts this week on a simple model for what successful leadership is.

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

When people ask me why points > cashback, this is why. Points give us the leverage to negotiate at scale, and deliver much more value for customers than any cashback program can. Rewards that move the needle. More to come here! 🚀

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Patrick Mrozowski

2 years

Hack to lower CAC = use your ⁦ @brexHQ ⁩ points for free billboards 😃

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

This led us to the painful decision to stop serving traditional small businesses. We decided to draw the line of who’s eligible as any customer who received any investment (accelerator, angel, VC, web3 token, etc).

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

Headcount isn’t a lifelong resource. It belongs to the company, not to a team. If company priorities change and important goals are understaffed, the only sane thing to do is to change your resource allocation across teams.

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2 years

1) Small businesses didn’t get the products they needed (e.g. working capital solutions). 2) We had to degrade the white-glove level of service we offered to startups, in order to scale to tens of thousands of customers.

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

It all comes down to a capacity problem: how many leaders can independently run a project towards success, and how many projects compete for their attention?

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

Excited to announce that @PryHQ is joining @brexHQ ! Welcome @andy_dsu and team :)

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

Leverage: if you’re smart you don’t need it, if you’re dumb you shouldn’t use it.

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2 years

"Our hope was to be able to support FTX's customers to provide liquidity, but the issues are beyond our control or ability to help," Binance has reportedly said per WSJ.

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Pedro Franceschi

4 years

Inbox zero for expenses is really cool. :)

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Brex

4 years

Now you can create expense policies right from your dashboard! 🤓 Get automatic alerts if Brex Card transactions are missing receipts, memos, or need your review. 🧾 Makes managing spend even easier. Let us know what you think!

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Over time, we realized that our startup customers – the very customers we started with – were growing very fast, and needed Brex to scale with them. @scale_AI went from 5 people when we started serving them, to almost 1,000. Brex didn’t work as well for larger companies.

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Pedro Franceschi

1 year

@antoniogm @brexHQ Hey Antonio - happy to get you up to speed on Brex. DMs are open.

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Pedro Franceschi

2 months

Always fun to spend time with @HarryStebbings , thanks for having me!

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2 months

I have interviewed 800 founders on 20VC. The single commonality of the best ( @eldsjal @tobi ) they all start entrepreneurial endeavours young. Pedro at just 15 scaled to 100 people & $1.5BN transactions. Today, he is CEO of Brex, a fricking monster that

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Pedro Franceschi

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For founders concerned with the stability of their banking provider, we are working to fast track new @BrexHQ Business Account applications. Funds are fully backed by US-government securities, or kept in FDIC-insured bank accounts. Sign-up here:

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Brex for startups

Get business banking, card, bill pay, travel, and reimbursements — all in one scalable solution.

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

Another take: If you take your best and worst projects and look at the individual contributors, they’re equivalent. Most companies hire in a centralized model, so ICs go through the same interview process. What's the difference between good and bad projects? Leadership.

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Pedro Franceschi

4 years

Compensation is a complicated topic for nearly every company. Excited to share how we built a comp program designed for scale at @brexHQ , while still providing flexibility for our team.

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How to scale a compensation program

Compensation is an uncomfortable topic. Friends don’t ask how much you make at dinner parties. Parents often don’t tell their children…

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

This has been an incredibly difficult decision for the team, and a deeply personal one for me. Many of us at Brex are deeply inspired by what small businesses contribute to their communities, but we believe these customers deserve a partner that’s entirely focused on them.

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Pedro Franceschi

3 years

Really awesome integration launching today for all Brex + 1Password customers!

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1Password

3 years

Growing businesses have a lot to think about – corporate cards shouldn’t be one of them. We’ve partnered with @brexHQ to make using online payments secure and convenient for you and your business. 💳 Get started:

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Pedro Franceschi

2 years

Ask yourself: what’s the version of too much headcount for your team? How much headcount can this part of the business structurally support? You can always add, but you can't undo headcount without a layoff. Add what you truly need.

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Pedro Franceschi

3 years

Nine years later, Apple merged Quasar into iPadOS 12. Window management is finally native. :)

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Quasar jailbreak gives the iPad window app management [Video] - 9to5Mac

Pedro Franceschi’s Quasar jailbreak adds window app management to the iPad, which allows a user to operate and view multiple apps...

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We also increased FDIC insurance on Brex business accounts from $1M to $2.25M. More here:

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