Brex started as a VR headset company called Vyond, founded by Stanford dropouts who were strong programmers but knew nothing about optics. Embarrassed during office hours, they pivoted to corporate credit cards and built a decacorn instead.
Chapters
Brex was a VR headset company. They thought it was really high tech. And so they were like, we're going to build a new VR headset. It was called Vyond. That was their name at the time. And it was like a VR headset thing from these Stanford dropouts. And, you know, they were good programmers, but they just didn't know anything about optics or the things you might want to be an expert in to build a headset. And they basically showed up to group office hours and were just ashamed. And they're like, our idea is horrible. We might want to shut our company down. This is really embarrassing. And so to cut to the chase, Vyond changed their idea and got really excited about it and renamed to Brex. And this was Brex, which is like a decacorn.