What the Plaid and Brex CTOs learned scaling teams, skills, products during years of hyper growth

Tearsheet Podcast: Exploring Financial Services Together · Oct 8, 2023 · 50m

Welcome to the Tearsheet Podcast. I’m Tearsheet editor in chief, Zack Miller. I’m joined today by the CTOs of Plaid and Brex. The successful fintechs that found early escape velocity did so by rapidly responding to their customers’ needs for complementary products and services. There are just a handful of companies that were able to do this – to go from 0 to 1 in a way that required massive scaling and building product platforms that can support this growth. And a lot of times that required scaffolding, deconstruction, and re-scaffolding while the growth engine is revving. Plaid’s Jean Denis…