Burnout from Square, Coinbase, and Brex prompted Abrams's departure
Zach Abrams · He sold his startup to Stripe for $1.1B—in just 2.5 years. | Zach Abrams, Co-Founder of Bridge · PMF Show · Jan 13, 2025 · at 16:22
Bridge co-founder Zach Abrams explains why he decided to step down as Chief Product Officer at Brex in late 2021 before founding Bridge.
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“Ultimately, I think there's, like, a lot of reason, a lot of, like, micro reasons why, why I left, but the, but sort of, like, now as I reflect on it, I just burnt out. Like, I had, we had basically, we started this company, Sean and I started a company in, like, 20 11. We sold that company to Square, and then I ran a bunch of product teams to Square Then ran the consumer business at Coinbase, then ran, then did this at Brex. It was just like a very, very intense long run.”
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