Matt Bango
@mattbango
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Chief Design Officer @brexHQ. Previously Head of Design @PalantirTech and have built and led teams at @Chartbeat and @NYTimes.
Austin, TX
Joined April 2008
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
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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
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
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.@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
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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:
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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
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.
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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
Brex's Chief Design Officer reflects on how giving design a true seat at the table is a catalyst fueling Brex’s next chapter.
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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
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2/4 - We changed how teams work together, breaking down silos between design, product, engineering, and marketing. Titles and org charts don’t matter to users, so we stopped letting them define us. Design has become central to so many decisions at Brex — shaping product vision,
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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.
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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
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. 🧵
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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
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
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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 🚀
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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 👀 https://t.co/9BMNr1HpnU
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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!
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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 🚀
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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! 🚀
✨Some personal news ✨ I have joined the design team at Brex, where I'll be working on “Special Projects” (aka. big bets that we believe will have a super positive effect on our customers, starting with our mobile product.) (thread)
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The Design team @brexHQ had such a blast hosting a virtual offsite in @figmadesign the other day! Each ‘room’ has its own activity designed to get to know each other better! 🤗 Tweet back at us—we’d love to see how your team uses it! Try it out here: https://t.co/oQ3DRVQp5H
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