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By ditching personal-credit underwriting and backing startups on company performance instead, Dubugras built Brex from a 2017 Y Combinator bet into a $12 billion spend-management platform used by Airbnb, DoorDash, and Coinbase.
Henrique Dubugras is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Brex, the financial technology company he co-founded with Pedro Franceschi in 2017 to provide corporate cards and spend management for startups and enterprises.
Born in Brazil, Dubugras dropped out of Stanford to launch Brex through Y Combinator, growing it into a multibillion-dollar fintech serving companies including DoorDash, Coinbase, and Airbnb.
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