Glyman: Modern luxury means saving time, not 1980s-style Amex lounge access
Eric Glyman · No Priors Ep. 76 | With Ramp Co-Founders Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh · Aug 15, 2024 · at 6:20
Ramp co-founder Eric Glyman compares traditional corporate credit card perks like American Express airport lounges with modern business priorities focused on time efficiency.
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“The luxury that Amex, I believe, was really owning and building was almost like an eighties conception of, like, luxury of, like, you have, like, lounge access, and it's covered in mahogany, and it's super cool, and, like, luxury in the twenty-twenties is, you know, I can go to a yoga class at two p.m. Because I have the time around the green juice because I'm healthy, and it was just very different, and I think the thing that was so, I think people were missing is, ah, time.”
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