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Glyman: Founders should optimize for total enterprise value, not single-round price
“It's not on the single round price. It's on total enterprise value.”
Glyman: Leaving valuation on the table creates enthusiastic investor advocates
“If you leave value on the table, you start to have really happy investors who go to bat, tell their people about this. They tell other companies about it because they're excited and feel like it can go up even more from there.”
Stebbings: Ramp Raised $750M at $44B Valuation, Surpassing $1B ARR
“Ramp raises seven 50 at 44. We've discussed Ramp a lot. Tripled in a year. Cross a billion in ARR. Positive free cash flow.”
Lemkin: SaaStr will switch from Brex to Ramp if Ramp's AI agents win
“Certainly we're going to rebuild our financial stack after Sastra annual and we will move from Brex to ramp if it is the most agent friendly and automating procurement is a huge bonus.”
Lindquist: Clay gives employees Ramp cards instantly to test AI tools
“If you work at Clay, and you want to try out a new AI tool, you can just go into a channel and say, can I have a ramp card to try this tool out? And they'll give you a ramp card. Like, no questions asked.”
O'Driscoll: FinTech vendors lacking API-forward products will lose market share
“Whichever of those doesn't have an API forward product. We'll lose market share, which everyone does. We'll gain market share.”
Geoffrey Woo: Personal Angel Investment in Ramp Yielded a 300x Return
“But even on, just on the personal side, was Angel invested in Ramp, so that's like a, at a 50 mil entry value, so that's like a, whatever, 300 X on a personal side.”
Harries: Ramp's counter-positioning against Brex is genius marketing
“I think that's really smart for product development, but I think what Ramp has done with their counter positioning against Brex is just genius marketing.”
Randle: Delian Asparouhov Sourced the Seed Investment for Ramp
“Dude, you sourced the seed of ramp.”
O'Driscoll: Fintechs combine financial margins with software growth rates
“They have the margin profile and core dynamics of a financial services company, but they have the growth rate of a software company.”
Lemkin: Ramp raised $200 million at a $16 billion valuation
“Here's the thing, it's two hundred million at sixteen billion.”
Harries: Ramp's counter-positioning strategy against Brex is genius marketing
“I think that's really smart for product development, but I think what Ramp has done with their counter positioning against Brex is just genius marketing.”
Lemkin: Founders Fund categorized Ramp as fintech to maintain non-B2B stance
“They told them they don't do B to B investing, then that viewed ramp as a fintech.”
Bonaci: Emotional attachment to individual experiments is a growth team culture problem
“No one should be that attached to the experiment that they're running. Like, I think that is a cultural problem.”
Bonaci: Marketers Jump to Execution Without Rigorous Experimental Design
“And I think most marketers tend to jump to let's go do something. Let's go launch something. But the experimental design, like understanding what you're actually able to measure, what you will measure, how long it'll take to get that result. If it's statistica…”
Bonaci: Growth Alpha Requires Doing What Competitors Believe Will Fail
“I think the way that you find alpha is either by doing things that no one else knows about. I think another aspect is probably doing things that everyone is convinced will not work.”
Bonaci: Scaled Startups Ruin Future Growth If They Ignore Brand Investment
“Once you reach a certain size or scale, like if you're not investing in brand as part of like your long-term horizon or long-term bucket of bets, then you're going to screw yourself over in the future.”
Bonaci: Growth hiring failures stem from manager scoping mistakes
“I think like the number one reason is it was on the manager. It was a mishire. They didn't scope the role effectively or the role changed. The needs of the business changed and they hired the wrong person the wrong profile. I think generally managers try to co…”
Shulman: Suno topped generative AI corporate card spending on Ramp
“We were at the top of what people put, the gen AI products that people put on their ramp credit cards, which means that like lots of, and so we were surprised people are using this for Cold outreach for sales, for marketing, for all kinds of stuff.”
Glyman: Consistent focus on one mission beats pivoting for missed opportunities
“I think actually there's advantages to not changing directions too often. And so though we may have missed some opportunities, I think the regular repeat Repeated motion and focus on the same mission, same goals, creates a lot of advantages”
Glyman: Ramp's recent post-money valuation was $7.6 billion
“It was a seven point six. 7.6 billion dollar post.”
Glyman: Mapping business equations creates operational focus and enables rapid scaling
“He talks about this concept of, can you really articulate cleanly your business equations? What are the outputs you're trying to drive? What are the inputs in your business? Can you list that very clearly and map that? And that exercise of mapping, how does ou…”
Glyman: Most of Ramp's executive leadership has remained unchanged for years
“Most of the team you'll see today running ramp is the same team as it was two years ago, three, a lot of the same people and the depth of that and people's knowing each other's patterns, the strength, the weaknesses are good.”
Glyman: Ramp would have benefited from storing funds during 2023 banking crisis
“In the wave of bank failures a year ago we could have been very well positioned to capture a lot of things. So there's things that we certainly would have benefited from.”
Glyman: Ramp currently handles about 1% of US corporate card spend
“We're call it one percent of how you know businesses spend money on cards in America, but there's 99% to go.”
Glyman: Non-card services now drive the majority of Ramp's payment volume
“The majority of how we're moving funds is, is you know, it's gone beyond card.”
Glyman: Ramp saves the average customer company 5% today
“We save the average company five percent today.”
Glyman: Ramp revenue is well into nine figures with under 1% share
“Even five years later at, You know, well into the nine figures in revenue we are less than one percent of the market in which we are largest”
Ramp Product Team Members Post Public Weekly Goal and Progress Updates
“Monday morning, the first thing everyone on my team tells me, what did they get done last week? What are they going to get done this week? What are the key decisions that they're going to make? And what do they need my help on? And it's public, and so everyone…”
Early Ramp Teams Manually Logged Into Customer Software to Switch Cards
“We were extremely aggressive in terms of making it super easy for them to switch. And what I meant by that is like, we literally had teams say, give me your old credit cards. I will log in to all of your other software and I will switch your cards for you. I w…”
Multi-Quarter Repeating Vision Statements Should Not Be Product Goals
“If you see yourself repeating the same goal for like many quarters at a time it's not motivating. And so something that's more like a vision or mission statement should not be a goal.”
Ramp's Biggest Early Hiring Mistakes Were in Go-To-Market Roles
“The biggest mistakes were probably on, on on, on go to market earlier on, you know, we hired people who had seen success in growth.”
Failed Ex-Founders and Early Engineers Carry Ideal Product DNA
“People who were ex-founders that might not have succeeded or early engineers that, that have been coding for a long time that, that, that just want to build great things. And I think you find that DNA that, that really helps.”
Ramp Practices Building in the Open With Cross-Team Commenting
“We have a culture at RAMP where even if you're not in the team, you can Advise and leave comments and suggestions to other teams. And we build in the open. And so what I mean by that is like, if you're a salesperson, you can go into my product spec and leave a…”
Ramp Engineers Publicly Self-Assign Sprint Goals and Report Results
“We basically have engineers that sign up and then we post publicly here are our goals and here's who's doing what. And so the scoreboard is super, super clear. And then before the start of the next sprint, we basically go and say, this is what we wanted to ach…”
Ramp Has Historically Struggled With Deprecating and Taking Down Features
“At RAMP, we've shipped a lot of things and I don't think we've been like particularly good at like taking things down.”
Evaluate New PMs by Embedding Them Into Existing High-Performing Teams
“For ICPMs on my team, I basically place them in teams that are high performing. And I, and we immediately see whether they are, they're at the bar. So, so you take basically something that is fixed, you add a variable and you, and if anything changes, right, i…”
Ramp Designs Interview Cases on Lateral Problems to Avoid Work Theft
“We do cases that basically are, like, lateral things about RAMP, so they're about something that we would never do, so that we never really, like, steal people's work, but something that is, like, somewhat relevant to RAMP”
Product Teams Should Focus on Only One or Two Goals
“Each team should probably have one, maybe two goals. And then as a tech organization or as a pride team, we try to synthesize those and aggregate those into like three, maybe four.”
Launch New Products via PLG Before Enabling Sales Teams
“What we typically do is we start at the bottom of the market with product led growth on those products. And so there is actually no like sales and very little marketing. We use that to prove the business case to the sales team. And we continue iterating on the…”
Cabane: Mid-market users stick with fintech platforms like Ramp for up to eight years
“When people onboard a financial, you know, platform, global platform like Ramp, they tend to stay for very, very long, multiple years, and so you can afford It's a something much higher in terms of payback time because the LTV is huge. People stick for three, …”
Batchu: Leaders must intentionally allow lower-priority problems to go unaddressed
“You have to let some fires burn. If you think you have to fight every fire on your team, you're going to burn yourself out. So you just have to realize that, like, some things are just not going to be worked on for a bit, and they're going to be broken, and be…”
Batchu: Ramp team members must refuse meetings with potential competitors
“Obviously anything that could be competitive, perceived as competitive, or looks like it's down the line competitive, I don't even take the meeting and I strongly advise against anybody at the company taking meetings as well, if they're considering them.”
Ramp achieved 400% annual revenue growth over the past year
“We just announced for the last year, we hit 400% revenue growth.”
Ramp's enterprise sales team is trending to hit over 300% of quota
“This quarter the enterprise team at ramp is trending to hit more than 300% of their quota, which is pretty insane.”
Dubugras: Ramp was Brex's first insurgent competitor after legacy financial incumbents
“Ramp was always, like, something super interesting for us because it was the first competitor that was, like, an insurgent. Someone who was coming and growing that wasn't like the big guy, JPMorgan and American Express.”
Glyman: Ramp spent its first 120 days building core infrastructure
“We didn't ship anything to customers, I think, in the first 120 days in the life of the company, and we were building the core ledger, and we were building the core financial infrastructure, and a lot of the core accounting integrations, all that”
Glyman: Defining a startup's core narrative early enables faster operational execution
“And so by fixing early in the life of a company, really what's the bigger story? What are you about? It allows you to move much faster on the other questions. So we can get into that, but I think actually fixing the core of the company early is really key.”