Brex’s AI Hail Mary — With CTO James Reggio - by Allen Park

kept by eddie jan 19

Brex's CTO describes how a 10-person AI team, agentic coding adoption, and company-wide AI fluency training fueled a turnaround to $500M+ ARR.

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