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From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:11:13 Ben Gilbert They make it easy to manage every aspect of your company's spending, from the tiniest purchases to big, massive procurements, so you have total visibility and ownership over everything your company spends on end-to-end.
- ▶ 1:11:26 Ben Gilbert We're gonna be sharing with you this season all the cool stuff Brex can do for you and why it's really unlike anything else out there.
- ▶ 1:11:32 Ben Gilbert I've been seeing more and more of my portfolio companies using them recently and having really great experiences.
- ▶ 1:11:53 Ben Gilbert So you remember who they were when they launched out of YC in 2017, blanketed billboards across San Francisco, New York.
- ▶ 1:12:00 Ben Gilbert Brex was mainly just a corporate card for startups then.
- ▶ 1:12:07 Ben Gilbert You can see why it grew ludicrously fast.
- ▶ 1:12:10 Ben Gilbert So where are they now?
- ▶ 1:12:12 Ben Gilbert Well, they kept reimagining different financial systems for growing and scaled companies because there's a lot more to spend management than just the one sort of piece of plastic that was the entry point.
- ▶ 1:12:21 Ben Gilbert And on top of credit cards, they built something really interesting.
- ▶ 1:12:34 Ben Gilbert Brex is helping companies create a culture of financial discipline that accelerates their business.
- ▶ 1:12:40 Ben Gilbert So like you, Brex's founders love the trust, teamwork, and ownership mentality that startups embody.
- ▶ 1:12:52 Ben Gilbert But Brex noticed that as companies scale and get big, including their own, those things can kind of fade away, which means new policies get implemented that are really blunt instruments and create inefficiency.
- ▶ 1:13:36 Ben Gilbert So, enter Brex.
- ▶ 1:13:37 Ben Gilbert It replaces the command and control model with a super smart delegate and empower model.
- ▶ 1:13:43 Ben Gilbert So Brex makes it easy to spend within policy from the beginning.
- ▶ 1:13:55 David Rosenthal Brex essentially just automates compliance, and it's easy for employees to understand what's allowed.
- ▶ 1:14:04 Ben Gilbert Brex is almost eliminating the need for receipts entirely.
- ▶ 1:14:08 Ben Gilbert They've built exclusive connections with payment processors to automatically create the receipt, so employees don't even have to, like, save or look for receipts after spending, and managers don't have to nag them.
- ▶ 1:14:30 David Rosenthal This should all be done automatically, and Brex is doing it.
- ▶ 1:14:34 Ben Gilbert Well, our huge thanks to Brex.
- ▶ 1:14:36 Ben Gilbert To learn more, you can go to brex.com slash acquired, or click the link in the show notes.
- ▶ 1:59:12 Ben Gilbert With that, listeners, our thank you to Vanta, Brex, and Tiny.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 1:38:48 David Rosenthal Stripe, Brex, Gusto, Shopify, Square.
Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired
- ▶ 46:44 David Rosenthal Brex, friends of the show, Modern Treasury, Vouch, Vanta, came out of the accelerator business.
- ▶ 47:27 David Rosenthal She went from a junior engineer at Qualcomm, great semiconductor company, to partner at Andreessen Horowitz, to now running YC Continuity, where she serves on the boards of Brex, local fan-favorite Convoy, FAIR,
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:31:44 David Rosenthal They're recommended by Silicon Valley Bank, WeWork, Carta, Brex, and more.
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