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MacroLa Spagna di Sanchez tra modello e declinoInseguito dagli scandali, attaccato dai “senatori” del suo partito, con un governo sempre in bilico per il ricatto degli autonomisti, eppure con buoni dati in economia e una certa spregiudicata assertività in politica estera. Quello della Spagna di Pedro Sanchez è un modello cui ispirarsi o un fenomeno in declino? E l’alternativa dei Popolari? E la destra, anzi le destre? Ne parliamo oggi a Macro con Guido De Franceschi, giornalista e grande appassionato della penisola iberica.2025-07-1728 min
Pattern BreakersPedro Franceschi: Lessons from an Evolving Entrepreneur, from Hacking iPhones to Building BrexAt just 13 years of age, Pedro Franceschi was one of the first to jailbreak the iPhone. By the time he was 15 he had co-founded a payments company that would process over a billion in transactions. And by the time he was in his early 20s, helped transform a last minute YC pivot into Brex, one of the most iconic fintech breakout stories of the decade.
In this episode, Mike Maples, Jr. of Floodgate speaks with Franceschi about how he made headlines and found startup success in his native Brazil, why he traded it in for stints at Stanford and YC...2025-06-3043 min
Feed CompletoConhecendo Pedro Franceschi (PagarMe/ Brex) Pedro Franceschi: A Origem de um Prodígio Digital: Nascido em São Paulo, Pedro demonstrou genialidade precoce para a programação, tornando-se a primeira pessoa a desbloquear um iPhone 3G aos 12 anos e fazendo a assistente Siri falar português antes do lançamento oficial da Apple. Da Pagar.me a Stanford e o "Pivô" na Y Combinator: Após co-fundar e vender a bem-sucedida fintech Pagar.me no Brasil (sua grande "escola"), Pedro ingressou em Stanford, mas abandonou a universidade para entrar na aceleradora Y Combinator, onde rapidamente pivotou de uma ideia de realidade virtual para a Brex. A Dor Pe...2025-06-1510 min
Feed CompletoA História da Brex Brex: A Origem dos Prodígios Brasileiros Henrique Dubugras e Pedro Franceschi: A jornada começou com os jovens programadores brasileiros Henrique Dubugras e Pedro Franceschi, que, após o sucesso de sua primeira fintech no Brasil, a Pagar.me (vendida em 2016), foram para a Universidade de Stanford. Nascimento da Brex na Y Combinator a Partir de um "Pivô": Após abandonarem Stanford, entraram na aceleradora Y Combinator com uma ideia de realidade virtual, mas rapidamente "pivotaram" para a Brex, focando no problema que conheciam profundamente: a dificuldade de startups obterem serviços financeiros. A Solução Inovadora: Cartão de Crédit...2025-06-0910 min
Alex Andreou's Podyssey2. Orpheus - Epic Hero or Drama Queen?The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other. Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it...2025-04-281h 13
GritFlexport’s Third Act: Winning in a Broken Global Trade SystemFlexport 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 tra...2025-04-141h 43
GritBrex 3.0: Inside the Radical Turnaround with Pedro FranceschiGuest: Pedro FranceschiPedro Franceschi is the co-founder and CEO of Brex, a fintech company reshaping how businesses manage their finances.Originally from Brazil, Pedro went from teenage hacker to leading one of the most well-known names in modern financial technology—building a platform trusted by startups and enterprises alike.In this episode, Pedro shares what it took to launch “Brex 3.0,” why he moved to a single-CEO model, and how tough structural changes set the stage for leaner, faster growth.Chapters:00:00 Trailer00:46 Introduction01:45 Startup roller coaster05...2025-04-071h 35
Most Innovative CompaniesHow smarter spending drives sustainable growth - FROM FASTCO WORKS AND BREXIn this custom episode, Brex CEO Pedro Franceschi discusses how the company is committed to helping companies achieve sustainable growth.2024-12-0919 min
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | StartupsInnovating Spend Management through AI with Pedro Franceschi from BrexHunting down receipts and manually filling out invoices kills productivity. This week on No Priors, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with Pedro Franceschi, co-founder and CEO of Brex. Pedro discusses how Brex is harnessing AI to optimize spend management and automate tedious accounting and compliance tasks for teams. The conversation covers the reliability challenges in AI today, Pedro’s insights on the future of fintech in an AI-driven world, and the major transitions Brex has navigated in recent years.Sign up for new podcasts every week. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com2024-08-0833 min
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch20VC: Brex CEO Pedro Franceschi on What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | Brex vs Ramp: Who Wins and How Does it Play Out | Battling Founder Mental Health and The Importance of Secondaries for Founders Pedro Franceschi is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Brex, the AI-powered spend platform with tens of thousands of customers, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood and Roblox. Pedro has raised over $1.2BN for the company from the likes of Greenoaks, Ribbit, DST, Bond and YC. The latest reported valuation was $12.3BN. Before Brex, Pedro was the first person to “jailbreak” the iPhone 3G in Brazil and co-founded payments company Pagar.me with Dubugras when he was 15. In three years, Pedro scaled it to over 100 people and US$1.5 billion in transactions processed. In Today's Episode with Pedro Fran...2024-07-1750 min
EquityDo co-CEOs make sense?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....2024-06-1919 min
Closing BellClosing Bell Overtime: Palo Alto & IBM CEOs Talk New Partnership; Brex Co-CEO Talks Growth 5/15/24The CEOs of Palo Alto Networks and IBM join to discuss their news the companies are teaming up in cybersecurity threat monitoring and management. Brex was named to CNBC Disruptor 50 list; co-CEO Pedro Franceschi talks about the company’s growth and what’s ahead. Plus, Invitation Homes CEO Dallas Tanner on the current market for housing and rates and our Leslie Picker on the moves the hedge funds are making.
2024-05-1543 min
Made In USA Podcast#50 – Eduardo Lins Henrique (iFood, Movile, Sympla, Zoop, e Wavy)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 d...2024-03-071h 16
Beisbol con habichuelasCarlos Mendoza dice una gran verdad: "Tiburones era una escuela"Carlos Mendoza, manager de los Mets de Nueva York, sigue siendo ese ser humano de siempre. El mismo que hablaba con el reportero, voz pausada, y el mismo que sabía que el trabajo, el respeto y la disciplina van primero.
«Aquí estamos con mucha humildad. Sin cambiar nada, con mucha humildad. Esto no cambia nada y es un gran reto», confiera cuando le preguntamos sobre el gran reto que tiene en este 2024.
Pero más allá de ser manager de los Mets de Nueva York había que preguntarle por qué él cree que La Guaira ha dado y formado t...2024-01-1912 min
Top Of The Game020 Henrique Dubugras| building since foreverHENRIQUE’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 l...2023-11-2115 min
The Next Great ThingScaling Fast and Compounding Success with Brex Co-Founders & Co-CEOs, Henrique Dubugras and Pedro FranceschiAs 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 glo...2023-10-2541 min
Grit#121 Founder & Co-CEO Brex, Henrique Dubugras: Pivot or ElseThe 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, dr...2023-01-1655 min
FoundTwo CEOs are better than one with Henrique Dubugras from BrexThis 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...2023-01-0347 min
Atitude EmpreendedoraFora da Curva - Henrique DubugrasHenrique 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.2021-10-2027 min
Latitud Podcast#34 - Dreaming big and achieving big: Henrique Dubugras, BrexHenrique 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...2021-05-2738 min
StartSe PodcastsHackeando o Vale do Silício #26 - Empatia: a soft skill que a Brex busca na contratação de pessoasEmpatia. 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...2021-05-2041 min
The Room PodcastSeason 2 Bonus: Henrique Dubugras of BrexYesterday, 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 mark...2021-04-2737 min
The Room PodcastSeason 2 Bonus: Henrique Dubugras of BrexYesterday, 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 d...2021-04-2737 min
Office Hours with Spencer RascoffCo-Founder Of Brex, FinTech Unicorn, On Second-Time Founder Status, Hypergrowth And Leaving SF for L.A.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.2021-03-0436 min
The Takeoff PodcastDave Fano (Co-founder & CEO of Teal)Listen to the episode on:Substack (you’re already here!)SpotifyApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsOther?Hey everyone,Michael here 👋. Welcome back to a new Edition of The Takeoff Podcast. Today’s episode guest is Dave Fano, Co-founder & CEO of Teal.Teal is “an online community and digital platform that enables professionals working in the tech industry to grow their careers with confidence.” Today, the Teal community has over 3,000 individuals from leading tech companies such as Peloton, Facebook, Asana, and many more. Teal has raised over...2021-02-0827 min
The Takeoff PodcastDave Fano (Co-founder & CEO of Teal)Hey everyone,
Michael here 👋. Welcome back to a new Edition of The Takeoff Podcast. Today’s episode guest is Dave Fano, Co-founder & CEO of Teal.
Teal is “an online community and digital platform that enables professionals working in the tech industry to grow their careers with confidence.” Today, the Teal community has over 3,000 individuals from leading tech companies such as Peloton, Facebook, Asana, and many more. Teal has raised over $5M to date from investors including Flybridge, Lerer Hippeau, Aleph, Alpaca, and Oceans (thanks for the intro, Joshua Rahn!).
If you are currently...2021-02-0827 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastReinventing Financial Systems – Henrique Dubugras, Co-Founder/Co-CEO of BrexIn 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 $1.5 billion in processed transactions. Shortly thereafter, he co-founded Brex along with Pedro Franceschi.
In this interview, we talk about:
- Henrique’s story from entrepreneur, to Stanford student, to Stanford dropout and Brex co-founder
- How he met his co-founder, Pedro, and th...2020-12-1118 min
Hackeando o Vale do Silício | StartSe#1 Brex, um Unicórnio criado por Brasileiros no Vale do SilícioNo primeiro episódio do "Hackeando o Vale do Silício", Nelson Nectoux, sócio da StartSe, recebe Lucas Fox e Gabriel Guimarães. Os dois brasileiros trabalham na Brex, uma das startups mais quentes do Vale do Silício. Eles discutem como a startup chegou ao valor de mercado de US$ 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 empresa...2020-08-1440 min
Podcast oficial da Brazil at Silicon ValleyEpisódio 12 - Henrique Dubugras, Co-Founder e Co-CEO BREXHoje 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 fun...2020-08-0739 min
Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast127 Paul-Henri Ferrand: Brex’s COO on Why Immigrants Build Great Companies and How Brex is Transforming FinancePaul-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...2020-03-1037 min
Startup GrindChasing the American Dream — Pedro Franceschi (Co-founder, Brex)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.
2019-11-1323 min
DEMOS RADIOEuropa Reconoce a Guaidó, España pide elecciones en Venezuela I Demos (2019-01-31)Europa Reconoce a Guaidó, España pide elecciones en Venezuela I Demos 2019 01 31Boletín Demos. La actualidad con criterios. En el programa se analiza la situación de Venezuela, de plena actualidad. Juan Guaidó ha sido reconocido como presidente legítimo de Venezuela por el Parlamento Europeo. Han votado a favor los populares, conservadores, socialistas y liberales con 439 votos, 104 en contra y 88 abstenciones. - ¿Qué impacto puede tener esto en Venezuela? ¿Cómo se percibe en Europa?- ¿Cuál es la batalla que se está produciendo en Venezuela?- ¿Es la crisis más grave que...2019-01-3128 min
DEMOS RADIOEuropa Reconoce a Guaidó, España pide elecciones en Venezuela I Demos (2019-01-31)Europa Reconoce a Guaidó, España pide elecciones en Venezuela I Demos 2019 01 31
Boletín Demos. La actualidad con criterios.
En el programa se analiza la situación de Venezuela, de plena actualidad. Juan Guaidó ha sido reconocido como presidente legítimo de Venezuela por el Parlamento Europeo. Han votado a favor los populares, conservadores, socialistas y liberales con 439 votos, 104 en contra y 88 abstenciones.
- ¿Qué impacto puede tener esto en Venezuela? ¿Cómo se percibe en Europa?
- ¿Cuál es la batalla que se está produciendo en Venezuela?
- ¿Es la crisis más grave que se ha producido en Venezuela?
...2019-01-3128 min