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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

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🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Henrique Dubugras is Co-Founder & CEO of Brex — the first corporate card for startups. A Brazilian entrepreneur, Henrique built payments company Pagar.me — the Stripe of Brazil — when he was 16. In three years, Pagar.me grew to $1.5 billion in volume of transactions processed. Prior to Pagar.me, Henrique built a number of online businesses in Brazil including an education company and a dating application.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. My guest today is Enrique Dubugres. He's the co-founder and CEO of Brex, the first corporate card for startups. A Brazilian entrepreneur, he built the payments company, pager.me, the stripe of Brazil, when he was 16. In three years, the company grew to $1.5 billion in volume of transactions processed. Prior to Pager, Henrique, built a number of online businesses in Brazil, including an education company and a dating application.
0:22.6	Enrique, are you ready to take us to the top?
0:25.5	Yeah, thanks for having me.
0:26.9	You bet.
0:27.4	What happened, and am I saying it right?
0:29.2	Is it, is it Pagard.mere.
0:30.7	It's a Pagard.m.
0:33.9	Pagard.comi.
0:34.4	That means to pay, right?
0:35.3	In Spanish or...
0:36.4	Yeah, correct. Yeah, yeah.
0:37.7	Portuguese.
0:39.0	Okay.
0:39.3	So, Stripe of Brazil, I mean, that's a big bold vision.
0:41.7	What happened with that company?
0:42.6	Why'd you leave?
0:44.2	We sold it basically because we thought we could build something larger in the U.S.
0:48.9	versus, you know, building a company that was just in Brazil.
0:51.7	Interesting. Although Brazil has many intricate kind of details, belate those things like that,
0:55.4	that Stripe probably hadn't thought of at the time.
0:57.2	You could have built a nice beachhead there.
0:59.4	Well, that's why we grew a lot.
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