Pedro Franceschi
33 statements across 4 episodes · 10 bullish · 5 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 15, 2019 by Henrique Dubugras · said 128 times in 54 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (112), Henrique Dubugras (11), Victor Lazarte (2), Jason Lemkin (1), Hugo Barra (1)
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 11 mentions in 1 episode
2022 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Brex's Henrique Dubugras on Advice from Evan Spiegel and Eric Schmidt on CEOship, The Biggest Hiring Mistakes When Scaling, What Everyone Gets Wrong with Product Messaging and When is the Right Time to Launch Secondary Products
- Hugo Barra: How I Built Hardware for Android, Xiaomi, and Oculus | 20VC #947 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2020 11 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits
- 20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How 1-1 Customer Onboarding Can Scale Efficiently to $100M ARR, Why Gamification Does Not Work But Game Design Does & What Game Design Means For The Next Generation Of Product Managers
- 20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability
- 20VC: Why Venture Fund Life Cycles Do Not Align To Companies Today, Actionable Strategies To Separate Good From Great When Assessing and Hiring Multiple Candidates & Why We Need More Adventure in Venture Capital with Blake Scholl, Founder & CEO @ Boom Sup
- 20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
- 20VC: Retool Founder, David Hsu on Why YC Is Helpful Pre Product-Market Fit but Not Post and Why VCs Are Not Helpful Pre-Product Market-Fit but are Post, Why it is Difficult to Become Unprofitable if You Set Yourself Up For Profitability Early & Why VC Th
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 63 mentions in 29 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Brex Founder Henrique Dubugras on Why Being Mission Driven Is Not The Only Way To Build A Massive Business, Why You Should Not Associate Fundraising with The Cash Needs of Your Business & Why You Don't Have To Follow Startup Theory When It Comes To
- 20VC: NEA Partner, Dayna Grayson on Sourcing, Picking, Winning, Gut vs Data in Investment Decision-Making & The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Expectations of Venture
- 20VC: BoxGroup's David Tisch on Whether Concentrated Investing At Seed Works, Do Founders Really Want Direct Feedback and Is It Good For Them & Why Consumer Social Is Interesting Again
- 20VC: Why The Best Entrepreneurs Are Cockroaches, What Everyone Underestimates About Customer Acquisition & What You Don't But Need To Know About Payback Periods with Josh Buckley, Founder & Chairman @ Mino Games
- 20VC: Ash Fontana on The 5 Core Characteristics That Make Data Valuable, What VCs Can Learn From Italian Craftsmen and Howard Marks & The Importance of Vertical Integration In Scaling Today
- 20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- 20VC: Inside The Mind of A Leading LP: How LPs Evaluate New Fund Managers on Everything from First Meeting to Portfolio Construction To Fees and Carry with Lisa Edgar, Managing Director @ Top Tier Capital Partners
- 20VC: How To Drop The BS and Relationship Build With Investors, What Investors Can vs Cannot Help Your Company With & Why When There Is Doubt There Is No Doubt In Hiring
- 21 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 33 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Learnings From Backing The Likes of Spotify and Airbnb, The World of Growth Investing Today and The Right Way For Investors To Think About Liquidity with Woody Marshall, General Partner @ TCV
- 20VC: First Round's Phin Barnes on How The Best Founders Optimize for Learning Per Dollar Spent, What Makes A Truly Special Founder/VC Relationship and Why Pattern Recognition is Another Term For Intellectual Laziness
- 20VC: A Framework For Approaching Risk and How It Affects Portfolio Construction | Lessons and Advice From Working with Dropbox's Drew Houston | Why Being A Learning Animal Is The Most Important Factor For Success with Ted Wang, Partner @ Cowboy Ventures
- 20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel
- 20VC: Top 3 Considerations When Evaluating Consumer Businesses Today | 700 Meetings, 70 LPs, 2 Years, What It Takes To Raise a First Time Fund| The Power of The Female Network In Action Today with Anu Duggal, Founding Partner @ Female Founders Fund
- 20VC: CB Insights' Anand Sanwal on The Most Dangerous Myth Some Investors Have Promoted, Why Most B2B Content Is Crap and How To Make It Successful & Why Predigree Is Overrated and The Right Way To Scale Teams
- 20VC: Index's Danny Rimer on His Biggest Lessons On Price, Ownership, Board Dynamics & Building Consumer Businesses from Backing The Likes of King, Skype, Farfetch, Glossier and more...
- 20VC: Ryan Caldbeck on Why The Business Model of VC is Broken, Who is To Blame, How The Best Funds Will Use Data Intelligently Moving Forward & Whether We Are In A Consumer Bubble Or Not?
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
Everything said about Pedro Franceschi, oldest first
Feb 15, 2019
Brex co-founders knew each other for only weeks before starting their company
“You know, it's kind of lucky. I think a lot of the, you know, common advice is that, you know, don't work with someone that you haven't known. For a long time, and we knew each other for, you know, a couple of weeks before we started a company together, so I w…”
Apr 15, 2022 positive
Brex split co-founder roles into internal management and external CEO duties
“Pedro and I, we kind of found our space. Split around external CEO and internal CEO. Pidra actually loves management, and he hates doing a lot of the external stuff that CEOs do, and I don't really like management, but I like a lot of the other jobs the CEO ha…”
Jul 17, 2024
Jul 17, 2024 negative
Jul 17, 2024 positive
Pedro Franceschi: Workflow automation creates higher retention than credit card cashback
“A lot of the value they get from the platform and the software and the automation starts to play a bigger role where, you know, customers like, well, I actually run my whole closing process on top of this. So the cost is higher than what I gain as cashback.”
Jul 17, 2024 neutral
Jul 17, 2024
Franceschi: Initial idea and co-founder selection represent 50% of company building
“If I were to write a book about how to build a company, there would be two parts. 50% importance of each. Part one takes six months. Part two takes 10 years. And the part one is just finding what you're gonna do and who you're gonna do it with.”
Jul 17, 2024
Jul 17, 2024
Franceschi: Leadership bandwidth, not headcount, limits corporate execution capability
“The limiting factor in how many things it can do is not the headcount, not the team is the leadership bandwidth. It's like how much time your best people spend, you know, doing, building things that are really high quality and really high craft. That's just re…”
Jul 17, 2024 positive
Jul 17, 2024 negative
Jul 17, 2024 neutral
Jul 17, 2024 positive
Jul 17, 2024
Franceschi Spent 70% of His Time Writing APIs for Brex Enterprise
“So what I did back then is I just said, hey, I'm going to spend 70% of my time building that product. And I just, like, delegated everything else of, like, day-to-day management of the company to my team. And I just spend, like, you know, 60, 70% of my time wr…”
Jul 17, 2024 neutral
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Jul 17, 2024
Y Combinator backed Brex founders despite hating their initial VR idea
“I think when we met the YC guys back in like, they were like, hey, we like you guys, but we hate your idea, because we were doing VR before. That was sort of funny, and they invested in us, but, thank God, but it was sort of funny, so like, I don't like what y…”
Jul 17, 2024
Franceschi: Brex rejected major clients requiring custom features to maintain focus
“And we said no to a lot of customers that came to us saying, hey, No solution in the market works for us. No one can solve this problem besides what you all have done, but I needed three or four things, and we said no to them and a few pretty painful ones.”
Jul 17, 2024 bullish
Franceschi: Brex Was the Last Sexy Fintech Idea, Not the Last One
“There is this investor that, you know, didn't invest in Brex, but I actually know quite well that says that Brex is the last good fintech idea. And I'm like, I don't think that's true. I think it's the last sexy good one, but I think there's a lot there”
Jul 17, 2024
Franceschi: Founders experience high stress/low anxiety vs low stress/high anxiety
“I spoke about other founders of this, which is like, I think when you're deep in the weeds in a problem, you're in this state, which I call like high stress, low anxiety, which is like, you know, you're working on a problem. It's really complicated. You don't …”
Jul 17, 2024
Jul 17, 2024 positive
Jul 17, 2024
Franceschi landed his first technology company job at age 12 in 2008
“And then I think over the years, you know, I started working when I was 12 and I told that to my mom and she was like, you're not going to work. There's no way you're going to go do that. And then she came interviewing with me into this company back in 2008.”
Jul 17, 2024 negative
Jul 17, 2024 negative
Franceschi: Pivoting is hard; founders underestimate starting with a good idea
“I think the initial conditions are, like, highly underestimated. There's this belief that I can just pivot my way around into an idea that works. It's really hard to pivot away into something else, and I think people just don't anticipate how much of just find…”
Jul 17, 2024
Franceschi: Brex uses one single CEO-controlled roadmap shipping 3x yearly
“We have a single roadmap now for the whole company. There's no more broad teams don't have their own roadmaps. We have a single roadmap. I choose what the roadmap is and there's a single editor. And most importantly we do very few things in that roadmap. And t…”
Jul 17, 2024
Pedro Franceschi Confirms Brex Will Not Go Public Within the Next Year
“We're not going to go public anytime in the next year. It's something coming in the future, but getting ready for this and having the structure in place sooner probably just acclimates everyone to the way we actually run the company day to day.”
Jul 17, 2024
Jul 17, 2024 positive
Franceschi's First Startup Scaled to Billions in GMV on $300K Raised
“I guess the other one that was interesting for us is we built our first company in Brazil to probably, probably the first, you know, four or five years of the company. We went from zero to, you know, processing, you know, a few billion dollars a year in GMV, a…”
Jul 17, 2024 bullish