Rob Kim
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building better business travel @brexHQ
Brooklyn, NY
Joined October 2010
RT @michlimlim: I was founding engineer, like my friend Prem. This is how I think about the founder-employee social contract, now that I’m….
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RT @cjc: This hits home. I joined my first startup straight out of school. I spent ~$1K (one-fifth of my life savings) to buy my options b….
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biggest 🚩s in founders from a former founding engineer:. - shit comp ("the equity will be worth so much in 2 years!").- obsessed over valuation + investor quality instead of customer value.- thinks they have a perfect recipe for success. so yea, pay your founding engineer.
pay your founding engineer. go into debt if you have to.
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RT @brexHQ: 🚀 Introducing Brex’s 2025 Summer Release: Speed meets control. You should never have to choose between moving fast and controll….
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for the founders out there with ~$3m in seed funding trying to earn yield - going by @jamesreggio's example of losing 30bps, that's:. - 4.4b o3 input tokens.- 9 first class round trip tickets from NYC to SF.- $9k you'll never see again bc you didn't choose @brexHQ banking.
Founders: not all “high yield” offers are created equal. Let’s talk about why floating NAV mutual funds and commercial paper are 🚩 for your treasury – and why Brex Treasury is built different. Warning: it's about to get nerdy up in here 🤓.
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"if you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat" 🚀.
Brex just crossed $100B+ in run-rate TPV across all products. From 1 in 3 US startups, to the most important AI companies, to the largest companies on the planet, we're proud to help customers spend smarter and move faster. May was our strongest month ever: here’s what
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bringing your parents to your office is the most validating feeling as an asian kid because yes 엄마 아빠 my company is doing well and I'm trying to be cracked for a reason. seeing them stealing snacks and taking photos is such an asian parent way of expressing their approval 😂.
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This is why managed travel matters. At a certain scale you need direct pricing agreements to save money and provide more predictability for your company. You only get that leverage with airlines when you centralize travel and spend management and can negotiate DPAs with data.
NEW: It's not just Delta. All three of the nation's largest airlines are charging some solo passengers higher fares than groups of two or more - sometimes significantly higher.
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As a manager, you should always hire people on your team who are smarter than you because I could not have cooked up something half as good as this - the attention to detail is *chefs kiss* 🔥.
Excited to share a cool thing I’ve put together:.Here’s the new File Preview at Brex, featuring:. - Smooth panning and zooming.- Keyboard navigation and gestures support.- Receipt item highlighting.- Dropzone.…And more!. See thread for how it came together - and how AI helped!
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POV: you're helping build something that keeps on winning.
Just closed the books for Q1 (April) for Brex:. - 154%+ realized revenue for April (~20 points higher than mid-quarter finance forecast).- All segments above revenue goals.- 230%+ bookings for April with all segments.- All segments above pipeline generation goals.- 152%+ bookings.
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RT @karrisaarinen: People talk about how AI is going to make design obsolete, and/or make pixel perfect designs not be a thing anymore. I d….
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Huge for business travelers and founders trying to get some more serious work done while flying. Other airlines need to follow suit.
The FAA has approved our first aircraft equipped with the fastest Wi-Fi in the sky. That green light means we expect to install Starlink on 40+ planes a month, with our entire regional fleet being outfitted by the end of year. The first passenger flight that'll let customers
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We're starting to see a lot of these tools start to materialize and spread, and I've personally seen and experienced a lot of those "aha" moments when we can finally use them at work - it just takes time to make sure it's done safely, and the processes are there for a reason :).
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3) Even once approved, initial "one shot" results can be mixed for large doc hubs or repos - you have to train your mental model to learn how to prompt to get that "aha" moment. Spreading that knowledge can take time, and is often extracurricular to everyone's primary jobs.
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2) There are very real data privacy and security concerns with giving AI tools wide access to internal IP and customer data. The process has to be restarted for each new tool, and many are so early they straight up get rejected for lacking table stakes enterprise requirements.
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1) A lot of similar tools offer similar capabilities, leading companies to go through evaluation periods to avoid double dipping. If you always use the best one for a specific purpose, you lose the ability to negotiate SaaS costs to deploy the tool across your org.
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