🎧 Exclusive Interview: Brex Co-CEO How Being Vertically Integrated Unlocks Global Scale

Hey Fintech Nerds 👋,

Can owning Fintech Infrastructure help companies scale globally?

In this second interview from the B2B Fintech series, Pedro Franchesci, Co-CEO of Brex, gives Fintech operator level depth on 👇

🧠 Why being Vertically Integrated is a structural advantage

🧠 Why Quarterly releases > Incremental updates

🧠 How Brex goes global

🧠 How Brex can compete

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Why should you listen?

Brex created a category. Life before Brex was terrible for founders and growth businesses. The least worst option was Silicon Valley Bank which would offer a veneer of founder friendliness but with a terrible digital UX.

Brex turned this on its head with corporate cards that just worked and removed the personal guarantee. It’s hard to understate the revolution this created in experience and the step change in productivity for businesses. Today a Series A company might have a finance team of 1, and maybe 2 by Series B.

Today there are many competitors to Brex, but this is a multi-billion dollar valued juggernaut with a substantial lead in deposits and float. 

Brex started as the corporate card for startups, but today they’re expanding—with expense management, travel, business accounts, and bill pay. Can they win the race for the finance operating system of digital companies, and if so how?

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👉 Coming in this season

Who wins, Ramp, Brex, or someone else? Since the banking crisis, B2B Fintech companies like these have been big winners, attracting deposits, funding, and CFOs to the all-in-one platform for growth companies.

But they're all doing it very differently. 

I asked the CEOs the same set of questions, and the answers varied wildly. This first series is an MBA in B2B Fintech in 6 hours. I learned so much.

The season is 5 interviews, with a 6th episode where Alex Johnson, Cokie Hastosis, and I nerd out about the interviews.

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The next episode drops on Wednesday, 5th June.

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