🧠 Brex’s AI Chaos

What we’ll cover today:

• Why Brex is betting on chaos over control

• The wildest unicorns minted in 2025 so far (yes, one sells soda)

• What SaaS insiders are buzzing about before Q3 events

Unicorn Season Is in Full Swing 🦄

Startups like Linear, Gecko, and Thinking Machines have officially entered the $1B+ club. TechCrunch + PitchBook tracked the action.

🚨Breaking News:
2025 has already seen 30+ startups become unicorns. AI leads, but surprise players in soda and satellites made the cut too.

⚡Wire Simplified:

• AI still dominates, but robotics (Gecko) and space (Loft Orbital) joined the unicorn parade

• Thinking Machines hit a wild $10B valuation and it’s barely a year old

• Even probiotic soda (Olipop) is worth $2B. The VC bar is getting weird

• Brex, Sequoia, a16z, and Kleiner Perkins are behind many of these bets

• Health tech, fintech, AI agents, and sports software are all in the mix

✔️Straight to the Point:
Investors are throwing billions at anything with AI, biotech, or buzz. It's never been weirder (or richer) to build.

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Brex’s AI Survival Plan: Chaos is the Strategy 🤖

Brex, the corporate card startup, changed its entire software buying process to keep up with AI’s breakneck speed.

🚨Breaking News:
Brex now lets engineers pick their AI tools with a $50 monthly budget. No more slow procurement red tape.

⚡Wire Simplified:

• Brex’s old tool-buying process was too slow. Teams lost interest before tools got approved

• They now test tools faster and trust engineers to choose

• Monthly $50 budgets let employees try whatever they like from a pre-approved list

• “Superhuman product-market-fit tests” help decide if a tool is worth scaling

• Embracing AI's messiness over slow perfection is now core to their strategy

✔️Straight to the Point:
Brex ditched bureaucracy, handed engineers power, and embraced chaos. Speed beats perfection in the AI arms race.

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