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Join us Wed for our Next Strategy Session on Reimaging Financial Systems with Brex
Join Us Wed for Our Next Strategy Session on Reimagining Financial Systems
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Join us Wednesday, February 24th at 11:00 a.m. PT for a fireside chat with Brex founder and Co-CEO Henrique Dubugras.Among the hottest fintech startups, Brex is upending the corporate card and cash management system. Founder and Co-CEO Henrique Dubugras recently took the company remote and has migrated from the Bay Area to Beverly Hills. Join us Wednesday, February 24th at 11:00 a.m. PT for a fireside chat with Dubugras, hosted by dot.LA co-founder and Executive Chairman Spencer Rascoff.
Henrique Dubugras, Founder and Co-CEO of Brex
Henrique Dubugras is co-founder & CEO of Brex — the first of its kind corporate card for startups. A Brazilian entrepreneur, Henrique built payments company Pagar.me — the Stripe of Brazil — when he was 16 years old. In three years, Pagar.me grew to $1.5 billion in volume of transactions processed.
In the fall of 2016, Henrique sold Pagar.me and enrolled at Stanford University. After eight months, he left school and founded Brex, which raised $215M in funding across three rounds in its first 22 months and was the fastest U.S. business-to-business company to be valued at over $1 billion.
Spencer Rascoff, co-founder and executive chairman at dot.LA
Spencer Rascoff is an entrepreneur and company leader who co-founded Zillow, Hotwire and dot.LA, and who served as Zillow's CEO for a decade. During Spencer's time as CEO, Zillow won dozens of "best places to work" awards as it grew to over 4,500 employees, $3 billion in revenue, and $10 billion in market capitalization. Prior to Zillow, Spencer co-founded and was VP of corporate development of Hotwire, which was sold to Expedia for $685 million in 2003.
Spencer is now an active angel investor in over 50 companies, and serves as executive chairman of dot.LA, a news site covering the Los Angeles tech scene. He is also co-founder and chairman of a stealth startup, and incubating several other startup companies. Spencer is on the Board of Directors of Palantir, and is a former board member of Zillow Group (Nasdaq: ZG), TripAdvisor (Nasdaq: TRIP), Zulily (Nasdaq: ZU), Julep, and several other tech companies.