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
RT @pedroh96: Elevating Design was one of the most important and consequential decisions we did at Brex over the last 12 months. I found i…
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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:
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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 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. 🧵
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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 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. 🙏
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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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@MiguelriosEN @brexHQ You've had such a huge impact on the company and grateful to have been able to work with you! Excited to see what you do next 🚀
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@hey_fife @getCos @brexHQ @derekstavis @davejohannes Props go to the amazing Latham Arnott ( for the video 🙌
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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 👀
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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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