Webinar Fireside Chat with Larissa Maranhao Rocha, First Employee at Brex

A free event by SoGal Foundation on March 24th at noon PT / 3pm ET / 8pm London

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The webinar is a conversation with the hire #1 at Brex, a financial operating system offering a cash management account and credit card in one place. Larissa Maranhao Rocha is currently the Tech Business GM at Brex and was recently awarded Forbes 30 under 30 as one of the most promising young professionals in Brazil.

In this chat, learn how Larissa:

- Brought a startup from beta to unicorn status in just six months

- Transitioned from consumer goods to the tech industry

- How she built Brex's support team from the ground up

- How she used handwritten notes to recruit tech experts to the early team

Meet Larissa

Larissa Maranhao Rocha was the first employee at Brex — the first of its kind credit card for startups.

She was deeply involved in the early iterations of the company, working on everything from recruiting an international workforce to developing sales strategies, structuring and scaling the customer support team to expanding Brex to other early stage tech hubs outside of the Bay Area.

She attended Harvard as an undergraduate, where she studied economics under the leadership of her thesis advisor and mentor to Sheryl Sandberg, Larry Summers. The daughter of a sugar mill supervisor, Larissa is the first person in her state to attend the university. At Harvard, she served as President of Eliot House and President of The Brazil Conference - where she interviewed and engaged with countless world leaders - including Warren Buffett.