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. He’s 51 now. Almost every week for 29 years he’s put out a new chapter of the same story. He’s sold 600M+ copies, more than any comic ever made by a single author (it’s a Guinness record). For 15 years he slept 3 hours a night (maybe don’t do this). He said he would’ve missed his parents’ funeral for a deadline! He tells new editors they have to be willing to die for One Piece. To learn how to draw emotion, he hand-copied entire Disney movies, frame by frame. And he’s so private he wears a giant fish over his face on camera. The man is a maniac. I love him. What gets me: he’s spent his whole life writing about freedom. Luffy says the Pirate King is just the person with the most freedom on the sea. Meanwhile Oda has lived about the least free life you can imagine. He basically locked himself in a room for three decades so a rubber kid (and all of us reading) could sail anywhere. For years one of the biggest fears among fans was whether one human life was even enough to finish the story. He’s in the final saga now. I'm still a bit nervous. Coming out of the episode, there are a few things I can’t quite stop thinking about: 1. David nails how much Oda sounds like history’s great founders: Jobs, Land, Bezos. He wants criticism, not ideas. He’ll redo something until it’s right. He makes it for an audience of one (he imagines himself as a 15 year old). And after 29 years and 600M copies he still doesn’t feel successful. 2. That “fewest people possible should touch the work” rule has cost him almost everything: sleep, family, his 20s, 30s and 40s. I'm intrigued with the idea that AI doesn’t break the rule, but might lower the price of following it (or perhaps just raise the ceiling). I think we get a few more Odas out of that: one obsessed person building a whole world with little to truly no studio behind them. Then again, why read anyone else when the story is this good. Thank you @davidsenra -- this episode is a masterpiece.

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

Ramp is worth $60bn and 70% of its R&D team is working on products it hasn't released yet. I sat down with @eglyman in New York to discus Why he thinks of @tryramp as a productivity company more than fintech The 7,000 pull requests their non-engineers wrote last quarter The trust charter, stablecoins, and whether an AI agent would choose your business. Full conversation 👇 00:00 Introduction 03:16 Is fintech dead? And why Ramp considers itself a productivity company 04:41 Why AI token costs are turning software into financial products 07:27 How Ramp's Inspect lets non engineers ship code using AI 11:51 Why AI is becoming the third major category of business spend 18:43 What justifies Ramp's valuation and its accelerating revenue growth 27:07 How AI is transforming employee productivity and customer support workflows 39:54 Why Ramp applied for an OCC national trust bank charter 43:15 How stablecoins enable faster cross border payments and protection against currency volatility 47:23 Will autonomous AI agents replace Ramp or choose its financial infrastructure? 51:01 The future of agentic companies and Ramp's mission to eliminate waste

Every product Ramp shipped this year was built with Inspect. 74% of the code we merge now comes from it. Last November it was close to zero. Now your team can use it, it’s been a joy onboarding new companies to it.

Tomorrow!! 🚀 Ramp is obsessed about saving time and money; we are going to close that loop tomorrow for builders! AI Spend -> Token Spend Management -> Router -> ? (Tomorrow) Stay tuned!

most acquisitions get announced on day one and shipped a year later; we did it the other way around. @bendopfner and the Vesto team joined @tryramp five months ago. we waited to "make an announcement" until customers could use what we built together. for three years they’d been working on a problem every finance team knows too well: log into a handful of bank portals, export everything, stitch it together in a spreadsheet, and hope you can accurately model where your cash actually is. the average Ramp customer has 3+ bank accounts, some have hundreds spread across many institutions and geographies (and languages of various portals). now they can see it in Ramp, alongside the spend they already manage here, with connections to 12,000+ banks and a cash forecast across every account and entity. Ben spent three years earning the trust of Vesto’s customers. he thanked them first in his announcement and closed with “job’s not finished." now that they’re Ramp customers too, it’s on all of us to keep earning it. five months in, it feels like he’s been here for years. welcome to Ramp, Ben.

Here is the final episode of Tony Stock Pro Trader: Progress is a Ramp. This was filmed live on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, it was so fun to be a part of this and I'm so proud of the team for the work they did in putting this together.

the people in this video house families, open schools, and help people live better lives. they're also under real pressure to make sure every dollar goes to the mission. 10,000+ nonprofits run on Ramp. we build tools to give them back time and money: sales tax recovery, grant tracking, and an agent that checks spending against grant rules. grateful our team gets to play a small part in their work.

More than 10,000 nonprofits use Ramp. They expand access to housing, support families, open doors to education, and help people live more independently. Their work deserves the spotlight. Today, we’re sharing a few of their stories. We’re also introducing Ramp for Nonprofits: tools to help teams recover eligible sales tax, track grant balances, and check proposed expenses against grant policies with Grant Policy Agent. Less time administering the work. More time doing it. To our nonprofit customers: thank you for letting us play a small part.

if you spent any part of your childhood playing tony hawk’s pro skater or watching viva la bam on mtv, you’ll understand why i can’t stop watching this. one of my favorite nights ever. the best things we make are the ones people feel.

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.