Building the $3B API That Didn’t Exist, Europe’s Regulation Problem | Marcelo Lebre, Co-founder of Remote

The Peel with Turner Novak · Jan 15, 2026 · 1h 52m

Marcelo Lebre is the Co-founder and President of Remote, the payroll and international employment company.

Remote is one of today's most underrated software companies. We get into why payroll is such a hard problem, why most of the industry still runs on spreadsheets, the edge cases of software meeting government, and a diagnosis of Europe’s regulation problem.

We also talk through the journey trying 8 different startup ideas before Remote, how COVID changed the business overnight, and what he’s learned about building culture and running remote teams.

Thanks to Gillian O’Brien, Villi Iltchev…