Episode description

In this episode, we sit down with Eric Glyman, co-founder of Ramp, the company that revolutionized finance management to become a powerhouse valued at $7.6 billion.

Eric shares the tradition of counting the days since Ramp's founding and how it fosters a sense of urgency and productivity, explains the use of AI to automate expense management and fraud detection, and gives an inside look at Ramp's cutting-edge AI products, including the Ramp Intelligence Suite and experimental agentic AI use cases.

Ramp

Website - https://www.ramp.com

Twitter - https://x.com/tryramp

Eric Glyman

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eglyman

Twitter - https://x.com/eglyman

FIRSTMARK

Website - https://firstmark.com

Twitter - https://twitter.com/FirstMarkCap

Matt Turck (Managing Director)

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/turck/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/mattturck

(00:00) Intro

(01:49) What is Ramp?

(04:25) How did the company start?

(09:18) Technical aspects of Ramp infrastructure

(12:17) "We can tell you if you're paying too much"

(14:20) Data privacy at Ramp

(16:13) Data infrastructure tools used at Ramp

(17:58) Traditional AI use cases

(24:51) GenAI use cases

(27:47) AI/human interaction

(33:32) Ramp Intelligence Suite

(39:38) How Ramp keeps high product release and product velocity

(42:37) How did Ramp get to product-market fit?

(45:54) Eric's perspective on building a company in NYC