zbruhnke

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Founder/CEO/Janitor @ MBI -

Prior lives: EIR @ Max Levchin's Startup Studio HVF Labs CTO @ Cyndx Co-Founder/CTO @ Spout

https://www.getmbi.com

https://hvflabs.com

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Comment · 3 years ago
sweet! reaching out now!
Comment · 3 years ago
Hi! Retool on-prem user here ... is this going to be available for us too? Seems like we get everything fairly delayed which is a real bummer :/
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Comment · 4 years ago
This is really cool and something I've wanted at work before. I agree with @vikstrouss's comment - if you keep adding to this I think you'd have paying customers.

If on the other hand, in case you're interested in monetizing it in other ways I'd be interested in chatting with you as well.

I noticed you said you were recently laid off, if you're looking feel free to ping me, this kind of initiative is a very good sign that you're going to be just fine.

Congrats on shipping!

Comment · 4 years ago
surprised not much mention of Elastic Beanstalk here - it has nearly an identical dev experience to Heroku. I moved past using it years ago but if I was looking for exactly that experience I'd probably go with it or if I was using Elixir likely I'd use fly.io because they seem to have it down pat for elixir/phoenix projects the way heroku did for ruby
Comment · 5 years ago
HMBradley | All Types of Software Engineers and Product folks | REMOTE/Los Angeles | Full Time

at HMBradley we're on a mission to rebuild how consumers interact with Financial products. Our flagship product is a checking account that pays higher interest when you save more of what comes in. We launched barely 18 months ago and have acquired more than half a billion dollars in deposits (We literally grew so fast our bank account product is currently invite-only!)

But our goals are much loftier than a bank account and we're just getting started on where we go from here. We've raised over $60M to build the best loyalty program in finance. Our core advantage over every bank you've ever done business with is that we don't have a silo'd structure requiring each individual product to be profitable on its own but instead build an ecosystem around each of our customers where the rewards get better with each new product they use.

In the very first days of HMBradley I used to tell people that we were "Mailing DVDs" in reference to Netflix. Today I would say we're just starting our version of "Shipping Ladders" like Amazon Prime.

These individual endeavors are helping us create an ecosystem of best in breed financial products that revolve around the customer experience, (which is what we believe is actually broken in banking) rewarding customer's with sound financial habits incentivizing good financial behaviors we believe is a win for everyone involved.

Fundamentally we're a software company that builds financial products. I'm a fourth time founder and I'm not here to sell this company, for us this is IPO or bust, we're swinging for the fence and the next 18 months is comprised of the most aggressive roadmap I've seen in any software company, much less in financial services. If we succeed we have a chance at becoming one of the largest companies the world has ever seen.

I often tell our employees that I cannot promise success, but I can promise fireworks. After the last 18 months of fireworks I'm proud to say there will be much more where that came from. We'd love to have you join us for the ride.

If you're an entrepreneur that's had a hard time working inside of other orgs I think we might have the exact right environment to let you thrive here because that is exactly the kind of founder I've been my entire career.

This has made it incredibly hard to be an employee at other places. My mission is to make this a place where incredibly entrepreneurial people can thrive but also have the benefit of building from a solid foundation and a massive set of learnings and shared services to leverage for the future.

If this sounds interesting and you don't see a job listed on our recruiting site feel free to reach out to me directly at zach [at] hmbradley.com and I'll get you in touch with the right person. We're posting new roles every day and we're looking for several single-threaded leaders for new product initiatives that are not listed on our site today.

We have a fair amount of jobs listed here: https://hmbradley.rippling-ats.com/

If you don't see what you're looking for feel free to shoot me an email at zach [at] hmbradley.com

Comment · 5 years ago
While this is likely true in many cases I'm in a very sensitive industry (banking) and we tend to self host things not for cost reasons but for security reasons. We spend a lot of time going through pen tests, getting SOC2 compliance, etc.

Handing off something this critical can cause an even more painful audit in many cases so just a thought to consider cost is sometimes not the only factor.

Looks like a really cool product though!

Comment · 6 years ago
Honestly my advice would be to leave FAANG and join an early stage startup ... you're much more likely to meet a wider array of people with similar passions and interests and varied skillsets.

Even if that startup itself fails you are likely to meet people you could start another company with and if it succeeds it will be an even better place to start a company from when leaving, most exceptional founders love to support their employees leaving to start something new.

Comment · 6 years ago
The simplest answer to this is regularly tying executive compensation to short term stock performance ... it leads to more Jack Welch's and less Jeff Bezos' ... Ballmer is another prominent example, Microsoft all but died under him while his key metric was stock price, that's not a win in my book
Comment · 6 years ago
So excited to see this vision come together Eric. I honestly hope one day we're taking HMBradley public on the LTSE. I have never felt more aligned with a mission or a vision, Systematically allowing companies to take a long term view without being punished is what the market needs.

Or put another way ... Adam Smith > Milton Friedman

I cannot wait to see where this goes and the mechanics LTSE puts in place to help reward long term thinking and long term holders

Comment · 6 years ago
Hey guys please don’t take this the wrong way but as a consumer when I saw the behavioral psychology headline in this post I got really excited.

Suffice it to say I was sufficiently disappointed to find out it was a prize linked savings account ... these have been run in the US for years, one of the largest in the US right now Is run by wal mart.

I LOVE nudge and I love behavioral psychology but this is not that.

Check out what we’re building at HMBradley if you want to see a real nod to creating habits.

I was hoping to see a new and interesting take here so I’m kind of curious why you settled on this angle?

Comment · 6 years ago
BINGO - this is basically the ultimate play for getting rid of the networks almost entirely if not entirely

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