They Dropped Out Of Stanford To Compete Against Amex And Now Their Company Brex Is Worth $12.3 Billion

Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi, now the co-founders and co-CEOs of corporate card and expense management startup Brex got started early. While they were in middle school, Henrique started coding to build clones of games that his parents wouldn’t buy for him and Pedro became the first to jailbreak the iPhone. But when the patent infringement and cease and desists came, they needed to find new things to work on.

Fast forward to when Henrique and Pedro were in high school, they met on Twitter and later decided to work on a company together. That company was Pagar.me, a payments processing company serving customers in their home

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