Chief Design Officer @brexHQ. Previously Head of Design @PalantirTech and have built and led teams at @Chartbeat and @NYTimes.
Austin, TX
Joined April 2008
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Matt Bango retweeted
Brex has reached $700M in total annualized revenue, growing 50%, and is on track to profitability.
The past 2 years have been transformative: sharper focus, higher standards, stronger culture.
Now growth is accelerating again, with our move into Europe being just one step on the journey.
This is the new @brexHQ. Thanks @GeorgeNHammond & @FinancialTimes for the feature. Link below.
Our Spring Release is the best one we've done yet. It's our highest quality bar, fastest output, and builds on a track record of delivering what we say, when we say it.
Our culture has shifted over the past year to be one of building over talking, ownership over diffusion of responsibility, and leaning into the hardest problems head on.
This shift isn’t just about shipping faster—it’s about a culture that compounds. This release, more than any other, is proof of that. And we’re just getting started.
Today, I’m thrilled to unveil @brexHQ 's 2025 Spring Release 🌱, bringing a whole new level of customization and control to every Brex user, from founders to finance teams.
It’s our fourth major release since Brex 3.0, and we continue to relentlessly raise the bar for quality and polish. Here’s a preview – I can’t wait for you to try it!
➡️ New custom fields: Now the data from your business systems syncs natively with Brex, so you can use any field from your ERP or HRIS to provision cards, change your policy, or automate accounting.
➡️ New custom roles: Customize user roles to match how you operate, giving teams exactly the permissions they need to do their jobs efficiently and securely.
➡ New AI policy engine: Create one universal policy with scenario-specific rules for departments, levels, entities, countries, and more using AI. Brex will intelligently apply it to every transaction — from bill payments to cards.
➡️ New admin home: Monitor your key financial metrics, such as balances, changes in cash flow, spend insights, and rewards, in one place — and take any action you need on Brex with one click.
➡️ New invoicing: We’ve also built easy invoicing right into your Brex business account! Send invoices, track payments, and get paid even faster if your customer pays you from their own Brex business account ;) 💸
➡️ AI-assisted vendor management: Automate TIN/W-9 collection using AI and have everything you need to file taxes when it’s time.
And these are just a few of the 50+ updates in the 2025 Spring Release 🔥. Check it out! ⤵️
.@AdamStorr is one of the best in the industry. Loads of great insights in this episode!
This is how a Head of Design uses Figma comments to give async design feedback
When a design leader sets aside time for asynchronous design feedback, it shows their commitment to elevating the team's craft
@AdamStorr shows how he gives async design feedback to designers at @_hex_tech using @figma comments👇
Thrilled to have more winning companies like @AnthropicAI on @brexHQ. Congrats on the new round!
Anthropic has raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
This will advance our development of AI systems, deepen our understanding of how they work, and fuel our international expansion.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/anthropic…
Matt Bango retweeted
Elevating Design was one of the most important and consequential decisions we did at Brex over the last 12 months.
I found it to be the only way to remain intimately connected to the customer experience at scale.
@mattbango and the team has done a tremendous job here, and we're just getting started!
If you're looking for a true design-first company, where Design has a true seat at the table, come join us!
1/4 - In Brex 3.0, we made a bold bet: Design moved to report directly to the CEO, and I joined the leadership team as the Chief Design Officer. This shift ignited a transformation—not just in Design but across Brex.
3/4 - The results have been extraordinary. Our customers include some of the most innovative companies on the planet, from AI leaders like Anthropic and Scale AI. A company worth more than $1 trillion (yes, with a “t”) in market cap chose Brex because of what we’ve been able to deliver and our enterprise business nearly doubled over the past year.
4/4 - If this journey sounds exciting, we're hiring and I'd love to hear from you.
Read the full story here: brex.com/journal/design-as-a…
Pivotal changes test everything: your principles, your team, your resolve. When you’re deep in it, you don’t know it’s working until the numbers start to tell the story.
The momentum we’re seeing now is the most exciting in my 5 years at @brexHQ . Hard calls, clear focus, and grit got us here, and will serve as the foundation of our culture for years to come. 🚀
Early this year, we made some hard changes at @brexHQ to increase intensity, quality and speed.
Ten months later, this is how Brex is doing after switching into founder mode. 🧵
Founder Mode has also unleashed a wave of creativity and the highest-quality product-making I've seen in years @brexHQ . Because as the founder changes, the company changes too:
We're focused on doing fewer things through a single roadmap.
We've decoupled position and portfolio and operate more as an artist colony. There is only the artist and the work.
We're funding real customer problems, not static, bottoms-up backlogs. And we've fallen in love with those problems, not the solutions.
We co-design a clear vision to work backwards from, with real customers, rather than isolated in the abstract.
We now move beyond org lines within Design, because there are no boundaries to a user.
We're obsessed over not accepting good enough, unless it's extraordinary.
We operate at all levels, regardless of role, from strategy to the smallest details, instead of delegating.
We're focused on one thing: winning.
Switching to founder mode is the best thing I’ve done at Brex in many years. What it means for us in practice:
1) Having a single roadmap for the entire company, where I’m the editor of what ships in each release.
2) Eliminate people manager roles. Leaders must operate at all levels, just like founders.
3) Looking at every metric the most punitive way possible, removing all room for wishful thinking and surfacing the few things that truly matter.
Results: growth rate 2x faster vs a year ago, burn down 70% YoY, and my highest level of energy since I started the company.
And yes, also very inspired by a conversation with @bchesky too. Silicon Valley is healing. 🙏
Amazing seeing Brex at #4 in the list, just behind OpenAI, Anduril, and Stripe. Such a great group of companies and we're still just getting started 🚀
Thrilled that @brexHQ is #4 on CNBC disruptors list this year! 🚀Since we started Brex, our customers:
1. Automated 11 million hours of busywork
2. Kept $50b+ of spend on budget, automatically
3. Earned $350m/year in financial income
4. Got $650m in rewards to accelerate growth
So proud of the talented teams at Brex who brought a consumer grade experience to the enterprise with the stunning redesign of our iPhone and Android apps
📲 We launched a redesigned mobile app that is more intuitive, elegant, and easy to use for spending and closing out expenses.
Take a look 👀
brex.com/product/mobile
The creative process in 6 steps:
1. This is awesome!
2. This isn't right
3. This is shit
4. I am shit
5. This isn't bad
6. This is awesome!
Couldn't be more excited to share what we've been up to. Feeling very proud and fortunate to work with such an amazing group of people to pull something like this off. It has easily been one of the biggest highlights in my time at Brex so far.
By the way, we're hiring 🚀
Matt Bango retweeted
Happy Friday, y'all! Happy Halloween weekend! I am super excited to show you something we've been conjuring up over at @brexHQ.
Here is a sneak peek at Brex Mobile 2.0!
So excited for @miekd to join and build some amazing experiences together!
We are just getting started and actively growing the design team. DMs are open - please reach out if you’re interested! 🚀
