Today, Ramp raised $1.85B at a $60B valuation.
Seven years ago, Karim and I wrote our mission on a Post-it: “Save companies time and money.”
Our mission hasn't changed. It’s just gotten bigger.
ok I’m going to be insufferable about this one.
I’ve been texting David “make a founders about Eiichiro Oda” for ~700 days. He finally did it and it’s the best thing you’ll listen to all week, even if you’re not a fan yet.
If you’ve never read it: Oda started One Piece at 22.
A few surprising things I learned from reading about Eiichrio Oda, the creator of One Piece:
1. He slept 3 hours a night for 15 years.
2. He created the most successful manga of all time with more than 600 million copies in circulation.
3. He said he would have missed his
Every CEO I talk to wants every dollar their business spends on tokens to be visible, attributable, and controllable, like any other spend.
At Ramp, we’re building the accounting platform for inference.
Our cost per million tokens is down about 80% this year while token usage is way up. We want to help every business get to this (and better) outcomes.
for the last few years, ai progress mostly meant bigger models and better prompts. we’re interested in getting models to reliably know what only your business knows, at a cost that works at scale.
the labs team had a model quiz itself on what it didn't know yet. it learned long, dense documents with half the training the standard method needs, then kept getting better. fascinating work imho
engineers at @elicitorg are now all using inspect from ramp and i am confused by how, in this day and age, a credit card company can have the best coding agent harness
