How Ramp Raised $800m in 18 Months, Plans to Grow from 80 to 300
Highlights
- 1:26 Win the Marathon, Sprint by Sprint
- 2:09 Ramp’s Product Velocity
- 3:01 3 keys to optimizing product development
- 3:38 “Don’t make excuses.”
- 5:09 Product Management vs. Project Management
- 5:52 Single Threaded Teams – Build Autonomous Product Driven Teams
- 7:03 Single Threaded Teams – Hold Teams Accountable
- 7:34 Travel – Example #1
- 8:45 Travel – Example #2
- 9:43 Bi-directional feedback
- 9:46 “You cannot train alone and expect a faster time.”
- 10:36 Launching products = easy
- 11:32 Amplifying products = Hard
- 11:37 Customer Feedback
- 12:30 Be Ruthless
- 13:28 Automate Feedback – Use technology
- 14:35 Automate Feedback – Rank product category by requests
- 14:56 High Velocity Operational Cadence
- 15:00 “To win is not important.”
- 15:38 Operating Principles
- 17:05 Smooth Process
- 18:41 1) Our OKR’s
- 18:48 2) Brainstorming
- 19:14 3) Project Execution
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About Ramp
Your finance software should work for you, but let’s face it—it hasn’t evolved in decades. Employees and finance teams end up paying the price, struggling with 80s software that traps them into busy work.
Website: ramp.com
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