Eric Glyman (@eglyman) on X (original) (raw)

Co-Founder at Ramp (

@tryramp

). New York City. Previously co-founded Paribus (Acq. by Capital One).

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  Today, Ramp raised 750Mata750M at a 750Mata44B valuation. Last time we grew this fast, we were 1/20th the size. For 2000 years, business was built on two pillars. Today, a third: intelligence. It’s your least governed cost. It’s also your single greatest opportunity.
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  Genuine career advice: hang this poster in your room (or closet).
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  Surprise– the world’s most innovative companies are investing more on Twitter than ever!
  @tryramp
  customers–which includes a cross-section of the US’s fastest growing startups–increased spend at
  @twitter
  by 18% in the 7 days post-acquisition (10/27)! Google grew 3.4%, FB fell 8%
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  Fact: The avg age of NASA’s mission control team during the Apollo era was 27— they put humans on the moon. Young people bring a force of curiosity and creativity that can disrupt the status quo. If we’re serious about cutting waste in gov spending, let’s not turn away new minds
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  “Get rich, young man, for money is power and power ought to be in the hands of good people. I say you have no right to be poor.” - Very popular in 1915 - Best kept to yourself in 2015
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  Today, Ramp raised another 300Mata300M at a 300Mata32B valuation. In the past year our revenue has doubled to over $1B, growing 10x faster than the median public SaaS. We all know money talks — we're teaching it to think. Getting big no longer means getting slow.
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  He’s back. October 14th. Flatiron Plaza.
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  Today,
  @tryramp
  reached a new valuation: $13 billion. We’re not Steve Jobs or Wilbur Wright. We won’t invent the next iPhone or flying machine. Our job is more modest: save you time and money, so perhaps you can. (1/6)
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  Today,
  @tryramp
  raised 500Mata500M at a 500Mata22.5B valuation. Finance is at an inflection point. How does an industry change? Gradually, then suddenly. Decades where nothing happens; months where decades happen. Now, we’re teaching software to think like people. Exciting times
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  On the time YC cofounder
  @jesslivingston
  tore me a new one and changed the future org structure of Ramp: At YC, we attended weekly office hours where every startup shared 1/ their weekly growth %, 2/ their biggest problem, and 3/ what they were doing to solve it. That week in
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  Would you pull Saquon Barkley off the field to file expense reports? You better not say yes. Welcome
  @tryramp
  ’s newest, fastest partner and investor, and the star of our very first big game ad —
  @saquon
  ! Let’s go birds 🦅
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  Had a trippy experience. A VC walked me through his thesis for a fast-growing startup. I fed the detail into our experimental AI-analyst-in-a-spreadsheet… it nailed the valuation he bid, then built a full model I could tweak. Today we’re opening it up: Introducing Ramp Sheets
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  Today,
  @tryramp
  reached a new valuation: $16 billion Let the robots chase your receipts and close your books, so you can use your brain and build things. That's the way AI was meant to be.
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  At Ramp, we avoid goals like “grow revenue by X%” because it makes more sense to manage towards inputs, not outputs. Like if you want to win the Super Bowl, you don’t practice winning the Super Bowl. You practice throwing, catching, running, tackling, and other things that