Alex Rampell is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he focuses on software applications and fintech investments, including Plaid, Mercury, and Opendoor. Prior to joining a16z, he co-founded companies including TrialPay and point-of-sale financing company Affirm.
What the tape says about how Alex argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.
Their most notable contradicted claim
AssertionContradicted
Rampell: Legal SaaS Vlex scaled from $20M to $100M in one year
“So, I met this company, V-Lex it's a 25 year old company. This guy Alex, bought up every legal record in Spain, like probably going back to 1492, like buys the, you know, here's the Ferdinand and Isabella, like, you know, here's the document, like I'm gonna ta…”
Alex RampellFeb 17, 2026▶ 23:32Ramp founder Eric Glyman on the many ways AI is changing corporate spending
Rampell: AI reduces the marginal cost of arguing to zero
“One of the first or second or third order effects of AI is the marginal cost of arguing has gone down to zero.”
Alex RampellFeb 17, 2026▶ 53:52Ramp founder Eric Glyman on the many ways AI is changing corporate spending
PredictionNot checkable as stated
Rampell: Nobody is going to replace or get rid of Workday
“So, like, Workday, I think is, like, nobody's gonna get rid of Workday.”
Alex RampellFeb 17, 2026▶ 30:01Ramp founder Eric Glyman on the many ways AI is changing corporate spending
Insight
Rampell: Checks persist because AR and AP are an adversarial process
“AR and AP are almost an adversarial process.
You mentioned this, right?
It's like, what do you want to do as a controller?
Well, you want to pay as late as possible, and you want to collect as early as possible.
And then you have this weird thing where, like, …”
Alex RampellFeb 17, 2026▶ 14:49Ramp founder Eric Glyman on the many ways AI is changing corporate spending
AssertionContradicted
Rampell: Legal SaaS Vlex scaled from $20M to $100M in one year
“So, I met this company, V-Lex it's a 25 year old company. This guy Alex, bought up every legal record in Spain, like probably going back to 1492, like buys the, you know, here's the Ferdinand and Isabella, like, you know, here's the document, like I'm gonna ta…”
Alex RampellFeb 17, 2026▶ 23:32Ramp founder Eric Glyman on the many ways AI is changing corporate spending
AssertionContradicted
Rampell: DomainTools runs daily WHOIS lookups on every internet domain
“Domain tools runs a cron job every day on every single internet website. They do a who is lookup. Cool. So Whois look up every single day.”
Alex RampellFeb 17, 2026▶ 24:37Ramp founder Eric Glyman on the many ways AI is changing corporate spending
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