Is Brex a good company to join?

Yes!

Brex is easily one of the hottest unicorns, coming in at a $12.3 billion valuation. It's one of the breakout stars of YC and is often shared as a success story to emulate. Almost every recent YC company uses Brex for their banking, including us! It's an extremely good product, and I'm very confident they will go public within 5 years.

If the package on paper beats your current compensation by 50% or more, I think Brex would be a good option. There is risk in the equity, but as I mentioned before, it's smaller compared to most startups as Brex is pretty far along. Fintech is also an incredible place to be as it's very scalable, and you can't go wrong holding billions to trillions of dollars of other people's assets (I worked at Robinhood so I would know).

As usual, it looks like the recruiter is playing the negotiation game with you. If you remotely like your current job in any way, make sure to play it up. Make it seem like they need to pry you away from your current role, so they're pressured to give you a high number. Once you get that initial number, you can have more concrete negotiations and get more detailed feedback from the community. If you're more risk-averse, you can also let the recruiter know that you would prefer more cash instead of equity.

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Congrats on the offer!