How to Work Asynchronously with David Barrett of Expensify

For the 10 million plus users of Expensify, the company's origin
story will likely come as a surprise. In founder David Barrett's
mind, Expensify was a fictional startup concept that he pitched to
banks to gauge their reaction for an idea he had to solve
homelessness in San Francisco. But when David lost his job in 2007,
he decided to turn this fictional idea for Expensify into a real
business. Expensify is known to most as an expense management app,
but since going public in 2021, the company continues to throttle
toward a broader vision: to be a platform that facilitates
conversations that accomplish things in the real world. David
shares how he's kept headcount to 140 while generating over a
million dollars of revenue per employee, how an employee-first
acquisition model was their key to growth, and how an async work
culture means the sun never sets on the Expensify empire.