HENRIQUE DUBUGRAS
Henrique Dubugras is the 27-year-old Brazilian billionaire whose startup , Brex , aims to redefine the corporate credit card
Henrique Dubugras was born in São Paulo , Brazil in 1995 . 27 years later , he lives in Los Angeles and is worth over a billion dollars , having co-founded two major fintech startups .
“ I started coding when I was 12 , because there was this game I wanted to play . It was like a paid game and my parents didn ’ t want to pay for me ; I figured out , if I learned how to code , I could play it for free .”
His early start in coding flourished into founding his first company aged just 16 : EduqueMe started as a crowdfunding company aimed at sponsoring Latin American students in top US colleges . In 2013 , he co-founded Pagar . me , which was awarded Microsoft ’ s Startup of the Year prize in the 2014 Spark Awards and sold in September 2016 , with a staff of over 100 people and having processed over $ 1.5bn in GMV in 2016 . In 2017 , he co-founded Brex with the aim of redesigning the corporate credit card experience for startups .
Stanford Dropouts Dubugras met Pedro Franceschi through a Twitter argument in 2012 when they were both in high school in Brazil . The heated discussion quickly turned into a Skype call that instigated a long friendship and partnership . They founded Pagar . me together in 2013 , and after selling it in 2016 , they went to Stanford together to study computer science ; they lasted less than a year before dropping out in favour of developing Brex .
“WE BASICALLY JUST REBUILT THE ENTIRE SYSTEM AND THE ENTIRE STACK FROM SCRATCH ”
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