Lin Ling
@linnyisms
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Co-founder, CEO @HiModus (YC S24). Ex @HashiCorp 6 years to IPO. The greatest risk is to play it safe. I like spreadsheets, Figma, surfing, and š. Fromš½.
San Francisco Bay Area
Joined December 2015
Today, weāre launching Ramp Sheets, the AI spreadsheet editor built to 10x finance teams, operators, and founders. Ramp Sheets plans, executes, and formats automatically. Itās already being used to model budgets, forecast revenue, and reconcile financial statements.
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Here are the top sales capacity planning screw ups I have seen š 1. Not factoring in sales rep attrition 2. āSmallā assumption improvements that materially increase capacity 3. Starting with quota instead of productivity 4. Not hiring for the following yearās sales targets
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The biggest mistakes in sales capacity planning. Plus a free sales capacity model template
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In the age of AI, why make a Sales Wiki? Because even the smartest models are only as good as the data ā and the definitions ā behind them. Across conversations with RevOps, Finance, Sales, and HR leaders, one pattern keeps surfacing: thereās still no shared view of what āgoodā
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great unlock for deeper integration and trust
š¤Modus is now an official Workday Silver Innovation Partner. Weāre especially excited for what this means for our customers: ⢠Certified integration and support through the Workday Partner Network ⢠Increased trust in our enterprise scale, security, and reliability ā¢
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1confirmation's original @Polymarket seed memo from 2020. Reading it now is wild, they saw the vision years before anyone else did. Few in the industry have this type of conviction.
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So much fun talking about Figma Make, MCP + all things AI and design with @alexeheath @hamburger for Access! They also asked me about the origins of the handle @zoink š Thank you Alex + Ellis for having me on and congrats on the new podcast!
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Excited to announce that we have raised $120M in our Series A to advance the frontier of general-purpose high-performance robots. š¤ The new funding will accelerate progress towards our mission of bringing foundation-model powered robots to everyone, everywhere. Read more š
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This is a nice structure.
š $OPEN CEO compensation fully aligned to shareholder value creation -Base Salary: $1, no annual bonus. -Equity-Only Pay: ~81.8M performance RSUs, vesting only if stock clears hurdles ($6 ā $33) and sustains levels -Make-Whole: $15M RSUs to replace forfeited Shopify equity
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I used to play Settlers of Catan religiously. Now sometimes Magic. Both are resource allocation games. Companies are no differentāthe best allocators win. But instead of sheep and ore, itās millions in revenue and a 30-tab Excel thatās static and hard to parse; yet the process
ā”ļø Itās here: the AI agent for Sales Planning & Performance. Powered by real-time data + AI coaching, it catches the quiet killers of revenue: ā slipped ramps ā coverage gaps ā misaligned headcount. Hereās how it works šš§µ
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My 50+ yo immigrant dad uses GPT daily. I was wondering how his English got so good...
ChatGPT may be the first AI that most of the 8 billion people on our planet use. Some people don't understand why OpenAI took the risk of deprecating all previous models in favor of GPT-5. Itās a full-throttle, no-looking-back blitzscale bet. And hereās why it may win:
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Most revenue misses start quietly ā yet your sales plan canāt afford blind spots. Your spreadsheets hold the clues to ramp delays, coverage gaps, and regions slipping below capacity, but most teams only spot them when itās too late. Modus turns those static files into a live
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Annual planning calendar (summary) Itās already that time of the year to kick off planning for next year.
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Literally my favorite tool these days. šCongrats!
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Ramp has reached a new valuation: $22.5 billion. To our 40,000+ customers: weāre deeply grateful for you trusting us with your finances. To our team: we still serve just 1.5% of businesses in the US. 98.5% to go.
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I admire a certain #22 who handles this with grace at 23 years old. And hopefully is one of the propellers for $NKE stock to go up...
I can speak in front of an audience of a thousand people or in a TV studio on a broad range of topics without any preparation and without a twinge of fear, but yesterday I had my first real experience with stage fright. I found myself on a tennis court in a live streamed
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