A year and a half ago we priced
@Ramp's $13b round, and our call then was that they would be a multi-product winner. Today we are co-leading Ramp's round at more than 4x the price - and our call is that Ramp will be an AI winner.
I remember a conversation with
@karimatiyeh a number of years ago where he said something to the effect of "the funny thing about investors is that they only seem to extrapolate the traction of our existing products, whereas we spend the majority of our time building products that are nowhere in an investor's model, so either we are terrible capital allocators or we are going to outperform expectations by successfully building additional products that serve our customers' unmet needs."
As an investor, it is easy to get distracted by the trailing indicators - and certainly there is much to be excited about with Ramp growing 70% faster today than it was a year and a half ago.
Yet our excitement about Ramp has more to do with the forward-looking indicators. We believe Ramp is one of the most AI red-pilled companies in our portfolio. They are building for their customers' future needs and will continue to set the bar for product velocity and rapid innovation. They are customer-centric and relentless. We are honored to call them our partners.
@eglyman @faxherbert
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.