Brex’s 1st Employee On Thinking Like a Founder | Michael Tannenbaum, CEO of Figure

<p>Michael Tannenbaum is the CEO of Figure, the blockchain lending company he took public in 2025.</p><p><br></p><p>He was employee #1 at Brex, and before that ran the mortgage business at SoFi. Mike Cagney, who founded both SoFi and Figure, pulled him back to take Figure public in 2025.</p><p><br><