Rob Kim

building something new, prev @brexHQ

[Rob Kim @rob_kim]

too much of the industry thinks design is just "make thing look pretty". maybe if companies hired more designers, they wouldn't need FDEs to explain or make their slop products work for their customers.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

STATE OF THE TECH JOB MARKET IN 2026

Twice a year, I dig into trends in hiring and job openings. This is the fifth report I've done, and the most surprising yet:

1. PMs are winning in the AI era
2. Engineering demand has stalled
3. Design openings are at a record low
4. Every role now requires AI skills
5. Tech jobs are concentrating in the Bay Area
6. Remote roles are at a record low
7. The tech job market is growing fast, but mostly outside of software (gasp!)

Full report here: https://t.co/Gly6uqwKxe

[Rob Kim @rob_kim]

for real though this is cool af, props to the team

[Rob Kim @rob_kim]

non-technical founders: "i'll do the talking with investors and customers. you can just... sit there and look insane"

[Aarush Yadav @AarushYadav47]

We’ve raised $1.3M from YC & Afore Capital so you never have to type or speak again.

Typing is slow. Talking into your computer is awkward. Subvocal fixes both

Our glasses give you the speed of speech without you making a sound or touching a keyboard.

It tracks your internal speech muscles with non-contact sensing and decodes silent, almost invisible mouthing into text at more than 200 words/min.

Pre-orders are now live at:
https://t.co/DzrwIpg3GR

[Rob Kim @rob_kim]

@LouieMota88 my daily driver right now is https://t.co/cEoLdKH8ks (which has been great so far!) so I don't have to relearn a new UX every few days - I can bring my subscriptions + an OpenRouter key for any models I want to experiment with

but yea... it's tempting for sure :)

[Rob Kim @rob_kim]

for the past few months I've been experimenting with various agent guis after being frustrated switching between Codex/Claude Code/Cursor/{insert frontier lab harness} chasing frontier intelligence + good ux

Opus + the updated Claude app might actually convince me to keep my entire workflow in one ecosystem and cancel everything else

[Rob Kim @rob_kim]

@DavidHornGPT I'm hopeful some of these open source agent guis catch up 🙏

[Pedro Franceschi @pedroh96]

Introducing AI agents that do your finances.

Brex is now an AI-native finance platform powered by agents that learn, reason, and act on your behalf. It’s designed to amplify finance, not replace it.

Here’s what our next chapter looks like 👇

[Pedro Franceschi @pedroh96]

Q3 ended on Friday at Brex, and it was our biggest quarter ever by a LOT. We have our biggest product release of the year coming tomorrow, and momentum continues to accelerate at scale:

NRR of 120%+, NPS of 60+, all-time low churn. The customer experience is getting better and better every month. 🧵

[Rob Kim @rob_kim]

He's not wrong but it's amusingly the most American/western take on this topic, and it's not at all that obvious for children of immigrants when grappling with two opposing cultural forces in their lives.

Living at home or moving out is one of the most formative and difficult decisions in your early/mid 20s as an immigrant child - in an exaggerated sense, you have to choose between:

1. bending to the will of the system (their house their rules) and losing your independence to do whatever you want, or

2. become fully independent to make it on your own and likely never getting your parents' approval no matter how great the achievement.

The person he's referring to sounds like he's stuck on that decision (as were many of my friends), but my advice would be to pick one and go all in - both can lead to good outcomes and growth as an adult and each are difficult in their own ways, it's just really hard to have your cake and eat it too.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Also I see this a lot

If you live with your parents at 25

Like I know that's acceptable in some cultures, it definitely isn't acceptable in my culture (Dutch), nor is it acceptable to me as a person

You should be leaving your parent's house at 18 and become independent, spread your wings and fly

You'll never learn about the real world if you get pampered by mom and dad with free rent and free food

So the reason you're not successful is, is maybe this, there's absolutely no incentive for you to become succesful, there's no urgency, you're just satisfied being complacent living in your parent's house

Get out and spread your wings IMHO

[Michelle Lim @michlimlim]

I was founding engineer, like my friend Prem. This is how I think about the founder-employee social contract, now that I’m a founder.

Founders must recognize that financial scales are wildly different between ourselves and employees. For example, when I joined a company as first engineer, I had to pay five figures just to early exercise all my equity. I was a new grad, and any salary bump was game-changing. In contrast, a founder with a few years of career experience typically has more savings and doesn't have to pay to obtain their equity.

In big acquisitions, liquidation for a founder can be the difference between being a billionaire and a very rich millionaire. For an employee it’s the difference in whether their student loans are paid out, whether they can rent a bigger apartment, or whether they can become a homeowner. Founders hold the cards in acquisitions and we should advocate for employees to be paid out.

Employees are a privilege. They are betting their career and wealth on us. We have to honor that and look out for our people.

[Cristina Cordova @cjc]

This hits home.

I joined my first startup straight out of school. I spent ~$1K (one-fifth of my life savings) to buy my options before we raised any funding. That $1K became ~$80K after acquisition, some of which I used to buy a portion of my Stripe options.

At Stripe, the founders offered repeated chances to sell equity. That mattered. Our employees could buy homes, pay off debt, early retire.

The founder-employee social contract is everything. Equity will never be perfectly fair — but there must be trust that founders, VCs, and employees are aligned.

Employees don’t get a seat at the acquisition table. Founders do. They need to use that leverage on behalf of their people.

[Rob Kim @rob_kim]

@shweta_ai they are cute you just need a deeper appreciation for nature

[Rob Kim @rob_kim]

biggest 🚩s in founders from a former founding engineer:

- shit comp ("the equity will be worth so much in 2 years!")
- obsessed over valuation + investor quality instead of customer value
- thinks they have a perfect recipe for success

so yea, pay your founding engineer

[atlas @creatine_cycle]

pay your founding engineer

go into debt if you have to

[Brex @brexHQ]

🚀 Introducing Brex’s 2025 Summer Release: Speed meets control

You should never have to choose between moving fast and controlling spend. This release breaks the tradeoff with major upgrades across AI, purchasing, and policies. 💪

What this means for you:

🤖 AI-powered automation – Brex AI now works on 400+ custom field suggestions and automates workflows from expense entry to ERP export.

💳 Flexible payments, improved bill pay – Employees request spend, you choose how to pay (p-card, spend limit, or PO). Automate PO creation and invoice matching.

🔐 Smarter policies, more custom roles – A new policy experience, expanded custom roles, and enhanced vendor-level management.

The result? Fewer expenses to review, less busywork, and you get the visibility you need without the friction.

Discover what’s new → https://t.co/D8MA3eJibz

[Rob Kim @rob_kim]

@shaig Announcements I can actually understand and you have a deal 🤝

[Rob Kim @rob_kim]

for the founders out there with ~$3m in seed funding trying to earn yield - going by @jamesreggio's example of losing 30bps, that's:

- 4.4b o3 input tokens
- 9 first class round trip tickets from NYC to SF
- $9k you'll never see again bc you didn't choose @brexHQ banking

[James Reggio @jamesreggio]

Founders: not all “high yield” offers are created equal.

Let’s talk about why floating NAV mutual funds and commercial paper are 🚩 for your treasury – and why Brex Treasury is built different.

Warning: it's about to get nerdy up in here 🤓

[Rob Kim @rob_kim]

@ayushswrites @brexHQ i stand corrected

[Rob Kim @rob_kim]

@thechangj alr got one going with a friend lmk if you wanna compare

[Rob Kim @rob_kim]

@DanStepanov that's a lot of Food.