Benjamin Paik

Benjamin Paik is the Co-founder of Afternoon.co, a financial technology startup based in New York, United States. Founded in 2024 with a four-person team, his current company participated in the Y Combinator Fall 2024 batch to provide bookkeeping, compliance, and tax services for early-stage founders. Prior to this venture, he held a product leadership role at Brex, where he launched the corporate card provider's financial planning and analysis product line. Before joining Brex, Paik spent eight years at Gusto introducing embedded and international payroll capabilities while leading a payments team that managed billions of dollars in transaction volume. Across his career, the financial infrastructure products he developed have been utilized by approximately half a million startups and small businesses. His professional background centers on building scalable B2B SaaS and financial tools for growing enterprises.