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Henrique Dubugras

Henrique Dubugras founded fintech giant Brex when he was twenty-one years old. In his journey from São Paulo to Stanford to the heights of Silicon Valley he made connections with some of the biggest names in the ecosystem. Now, they’re not just business connections, but friends.

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108:38

How Deliveroo Got Acquired by Doordash for $3.9B |...

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2025/10/31

In a city built on great food, workers were still eating whatever was quickest.When Will Shu moved to London, he felt that disconnect firsthand and built Deliveroo to bridge it, transforming a local gap into a network spanning 10 markets. On this episode of HD in HD, Will shares how his belief in hard work and delayed reward helped him build Deliveroo into a global logistics leader, acquired by DoorDash for $3.9B. We also get into: • how they learned to manage riders, restaurants, and

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72:49

How Alex Bouaziz Built Deel Into a $17B Giant | Alex...

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2025/10/16

Global payroll is a maze most companies dread navigating.Deel turned it into their MOAT by streamlining HR across borders, powering remote work, and hitting a $1B+ run rate with over 5,000 employees. Alex Bouaziz, Deel’s CEO and co-founder, grew up nerding out on Nintendo and hunted perfection from Paris to MIT. His relentless curiosity built a platform that’s rewriting how the world hires. In this episode, we explore: • why he wakes up obsessed with your problems, not his product • how a

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62:23

How Adversity Made Him Unstoppable | Barry Diller

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2025/10/06

How does someone with zero ambition rise to the top of Hollywood?Barry Diller started out as a ‘wayward’ kid with no plan, then took his first big risk in television by producing original TV movies, a gamble no one in Hollywood thought would work. In this episode, he shares how trusting his instincts and defying convention guided his journey from transforming Paramount to launching Fox Broadcasting Company and building IAC, now home to 10 publicly traded companies, leaving a lasting

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121:33

How Kalshi Sued the U.S. Government and Won | CEO...

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2025/09/25

When regulators tried to shut them down, Tarek Mansour took them to court, and made history.This week on HD in HD we're joined by the co-founder and CEO of Kalshi, the first fully regulated financial exchange for trading on events. He’s redefining how markets work by building a platform where people can trade on everything from elections to the economy, and proving that prediction markets can be both legitimate and transformative. In this episode, we also get into: why entrepreneurship

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111:24

Sebastian's Journey From Flipping Burgers → $17B+ IPO

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2025/09/15

How do you go from pitching Sequoia to ringing the bell on a US IPO?Sebastian Siemiatkowski, co-founder and CEO of Klarna was raised in a home where ambition met accountability. Even as Klarna thrived in Sweden, his parents reminded him: “That’s fantastic. When are you going to get your degree?” That grounding, paired with Sebastian’s own ambition to measure up to companies like Google and Facebook, pushed Klarna beyond local success to a global stage. In this episode, we also get into: •

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105:38

The $2B AI Startup Changing Content Forever | Victor...

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2025/08/22

Before founding Synthesia, Victor Riparbelli grew up in Denmark with parents who struck a balance between ensuring his future security and giving him the freedom to pursue his passions, with his father steering him toward technology. At Stanford, the intense academics and ambitious peers challenged him to question the status quo and honed his approach to creating helpful tools. We also get into: • why complex video games were his first playground for building business • how Mark Cuban

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120:40

How Vercel Saves Dev Teams $10M+ in Time | Guillermo...

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2025/07/21

Before founding Vercel, Guillermo Rauch, was a self-taught teenager in Argentina earning his first dollars online to help his family.From early open-source work to remote freelancing, this episode traces how his drive to figure things out led to solving web performance at scale. We also get into: • how his dad instilled a mindset of pushing tech boundaries • what growing up during Argentina’s economic swings taught him • why he sees Minecraft as a healthy game for his kids • why he

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68:23

Betting on the Cloud Before it was Cool: The Rise of...

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2025/07/07

With an insatiable appetite for “what’s the new model,” Aaron Levie, Co-founder and CEO of Box, grew up chasing ideas without hesitation: performing magic at birthday parties, building websites, and making short films.In this episode of HD in HD, he shares how a curious mind from early ages became his greatest strength, and how staying slightly uncomfortable kept him ahead of the biggest tech shifts, from SaaS to AI. Today, Box powers content for 100k+ organizations and 68% of the Fortune 500,

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117:44

From $300M to $1B in Revenue: How Navan Scaled Travel...

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2025/06/30

When Ariel Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Navan, first set out to modernize corporate travel, he wasn’t an industry insider.What he did bring was a relentless focus on fundamentals, constantly asking, “Is it a good business?”, an instinct that arose from his family’s financial struggles, working in cafés, and participating in virtual business competitions in Israel. And that is exactly what led him to build a travel tech giant. In this episode, we also get into: • why building a startup

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186:56

How This Dropout Built a $3B Fintech Giant | André...

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2025/06/10

Before co-founding StoneCo, a $3.67B fintech giant, André Street was already thinking like a founder at the age of 14, skipping school not to rebel, but to build.His teacher was life itself, learning discipline from Jiu-Jitsu, gaining “environment intelligence” from being robbed on Rio’s streets, and maturity from an import-export class with 50 year olds. In this episode he joins Henrique Dubugras to unpack: - why he never wanted to be CEO - the prediction he made five years ahead that made

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98:46

The 10% Bet That Built a $12B Company | Howie Liu...

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2025/05/26

Howie Liu built Airtable into one of the most powerful no-code platforms in the world—used by over 450,000 companies and backed by everyone from Benchmark to Thrive to YC.In this episode of HD in HD, I was joined by the founder and CEO of Airtable as he reelected on the unexpected turns that shaped his entrepreneurial path—from cold-pitching algo trading models at a college career fair, to building software that powers teams at scale. In our conversation, we get into: why Airtable took

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90:04

Why Jack Zhang Is Betting Against SWIFT and Stripe

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2025/05/12

Jack Zhang landed in Melbourne at 15 with no money, no English, and no one to lean on.By 30, he was turning down a billion-dollar offer from Stripe. In this episode of HD in HD, I sit down with the co-founder and CEO of Airwallex to trace his zero-to-borderless journey—from small-town China to building one of the biggest tech stories ever to come out of Australia. We get into: • What Airwallex did differently that Stripe couldn’t in APAC • The $100,000 mistake that nearly derailed their

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86:15

Why Pfizer, Dell, and Uber Trust This Man With Their...

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2025/04/16

Everyone ignored this problem—until it became an opportunity. Alexander Rinke, co-founder of Celonis, turned a student project into a $13B+ process mining giant from Germany. Born and raised in Berlin, he went on to build a software empire that has saved companies like Pfizer $300M. This episode of HD in HD explores Alex’s path from student founder to CEO—and how he sees AI transforming the way companies run. Alex and I also unpack: • how 1,500 handwritten letters helped him land Siemens • why

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80:53

Inside Revolut: How Nikolay Storonsky Built a $33B...

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2025/02/28

Most fintechs die trying to fit into a system designed to keep them out.Revolut took the opposite approach: It scaled by ignoring convention, challenging legacy banking models, betting on speed over bureaucracy, and building better systems. Nikolay Storonsky, CEO and Co-founder of Revolut, shares with us two fundamental truths: systems can be hacked, and endurance beats talent. This mindset shaped Revolut, which went from a niche FX product to a global financial super app, challenging banks at

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109:23

Tinder Founder on How Swiping Changed Dating Forever...

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2025/01/30

Justin Mateen set out to make dating simple—no lengthy profiles, no uncertainty—just a "yes" or "no" swipe. Today, Tinder’s user base has expanded to 75 million monthly active users.Justin has continued building on his success by investing in promising startups through his $500M+ family office and JAM Fund. JAM Fund alone has raised $500 million, with $330 million dedicated to its second fund. In this episode, he and I sat down to discuss Tinder’s highs, struggles, and the lessons learned along

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79:26

Being a Leader People Talk About with Bill McDermott

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2025/01/07

Bill McDermott bought his first business when he was in high school, and he never looked back. Now, he sits down with Henrique to talk about his early days as a teenage entrepreneur, coming home from his first job interview with his employee badge in his pocket, and what it takes to be the type of leader people still talk about decades later.This episode is brought to you by Brex—a brand I'm proud to have co-founded and one thats shaped by the same journey many of you are on. Brex has everything

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57:52

Building One of Latin America’s Most Successful...

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2024/12/17

An early adopter of the Arpanet, Marcos Galperin went from Buenos Aires to Penn to establishing one of Latin America’s most successful companies, Mercado Libre. Marcos sits down for a candid conversation with Henrique where the two discuss the unique problems of building a South American company, the pivot away from the eBay model of online auctions and Marcos’s run as a champion rugby player. This episode is brought to you by Brex—a brand I'm proud to have co-founded and one thats shaped by the

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81:42

Behind the Growth of Plaid with Zach Perret

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2024/12/03

Beginning in a small town in North Carolina, Zach Perret would eventually go on to form one of the most consequential fintech companies in all of Silicon Valley. Now, the Co-Founder and CEO of Plaid sits down with Henrique Dubugras to talk about being shaped ideologically by Occupy Wall Street, selling and then un-selling to Visa, and how a lead investor once pulled out of a round at the last minute, leading to Plaid being saved by three guys named "Justin".

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113:41

From Wildlife to Benchmark with Victor Lazarte

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2024/11/19

Victor Lazarte took a flyer on his first company, leaving a prestigious job at JP Morgan to make mobile games. Now he sits on the board of one of the most prestigious Venture Capital firms in the world. Victor opens up to Henrique about his early attempts to grow his business, making money in the competitive world of online games, and making the transition from founder to VC. Plus, the two talk shop about growing up in Brazil and how Victor was able to talk his way out of being expelled from grade

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116:22

Inside the Growth of Robinhood with Vlad Tenev

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2024/11/05

Growing up, Vlad Tenev didn’t see himself as an entrepreneur. The son of immigrants in the suburbs of Washington, DC he saw himself going into law, research, math. But when he cracked the problem of providing low-latency trades for free, he knew he was onto something. Shortly after that came Robinhood, and the rest was history.Vlad sits down with Henrique to unpack the road so far: his childhood, his time at Stanford, and the genesis of what was at one point the number one app in the app store. He

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