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Building Ramp Procurement ( @tryramp ). Founder @VenueHQ (backed by Sequoia and acquired by Ramp). 🇰🇷
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This is
@gdb
’s resume.
He dropped out of Harvard/MIT to be the CTO of Stripe for 5 years. Now, he’s the President of OpenAI.
Insane.
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Crazy how engineers get paid $500K/yr and they spend half their time waiting for
• Code to build
• Tests to pass
• PRs to be reviewed
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Ramp, Rippling, Replit, and Retool will be generational companies of the next decade.
Incredible density of talent.
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11 years ago, I immigrated from South Korea to the United States
This past summer, I became a US citizen 🇺🇸
And today, my co-founders and I wrapped up the
@Sequoia
Arc program
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new
@tryramp
nyc office
come work with me — we’re hiring for eng, design, marketing, sales, ops & more!
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if you’re freelancing for breakout startups, negotiate for equity or ask to invest
everyone talks about charging high hourly rates but for the right companies, equity is king
wish I was told this earlier
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Personal News ✨
Starting tomorrow, I'm officially a Product Manager at
@tryramp
!
Super grateful for the Ramp team for supporting my move from Design → PM
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what if
@MrBeastYT
released a credit card? 🤔
been thinking about co-branded cards for creators & brands
more engagement + revenue
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so many exciting startups looking to hire founding designers! 🎨
who are the best designers you know? i want to connect them :)
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Today is Day 2 of my new venture.
I’m excited to announce that we’ve joined
@sequoia
's inaugural Arc Americas cohort, partnering with
@josephinekchen
&
@Alfred_Lin
.
🧵 on our founding team, why we chose Arc & takeaways for other founders starting out 👇
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after living in the US for 10 years, I’m officially a homeowner today! 🎉
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It’s a beautiful day in NYC and I’m excited to share that
@tryramp
has raised $750M at $8.1B valuation.
Many point to Ramp's velocity of execution as its secret to success. Here’s a few highlights from building for the past 2 years here. 👇
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every intern in my Facebook design cohort wanted to work on Instagram
the designers who went to work at b2b companies in security, compliance, fintech, and vertical saas made way more money
strongly encourage young designers to look at complex unsexy problems, not just consumer
while the best designers I know favor teams and industries that fawn over design, the impact of design is most transformative in industries where design is undervalued.
perhaps a key career insight is to find a team that values your superpower in an industry that doesn’t?
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For VC-backed startups, a big question is "why now?" Macro trends I've noticed:
• Generative AI (OpenAI, Stability)
• Proliferation of Data Warehouses (Snowflake)
• iOS 14.5 Privacy Changes
• FX Volatility & Adoption of Stables (USDC)
What else?
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What are the hottest Seed / Series A startups in NYC?
Many talented folks looking for new roles right now.
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Who’s available for product design work? Many exciting early stage b2b startups looking to contract or hire their first designer
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Today is my 2 years
@tryramp
. It's been incredible to see the company grow from 20 → 300 employees.
The best part of working at Ramp is the ambitious team.
We're hiring Product Managers, iOS Engineers, and Designers. Reach out if you're interested!
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I had dinner with Alfred Lin this past summer and a key takeaway from our conversation was the difference between 1% growth compounding everyday, 6 days/wk and 5 days/wk.
Great reminder heading into the new year.
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come join the Ramp team for unlimited
@cometeer
☕️
& if you’re a founder in NYC, would love to treat you to some in the office!
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Ramp (
@tryramp
) is the only solution your finance team will ever need 💰
Today, we announce our Series C of $300M at $3.9B valuation 🚀
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May 2020
Dad: You can't rescind on Facebook, it's COVID economy! How dare you go to a startup?
Dec 2020
Dad: Why aren't you starting a company? Why can't you be like Tony Xu?
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on the yacht with
@chamath
and his father
@ParikPatelCFA
ty
@tanthaip
for this once in a lifetime opportunity 🙏
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when a designer plagiarizes your case study & 2 others 😬
feel like this happens every once in a while ... how can recruiters verify original work?
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never seen a hotter market for designers
if you’re a designer looking to jump into startups & work on challenging problems, hit me up! 💬
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Every enterprise founder wants to re-build the ERP. Low NPS, high ACV, and sticky.
What are some startups in this space? Will we see NetSuite, Oracle, SAP be replaced in the next 10 years?
Seems like the best approach is verticalization.
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Inspired by
@stripe
home, we created Hub, a place for people to connect with their colleagues! Employees sign in with Slack and Hub integrates with HR tools.
If your company is interested in this, please DM me ✨
Features below 👇
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At
@tryramp
, we’re obsessed with saving time for our customers
We noticed teams issuing identical cards like stipends, one by one
So today, we introduced Card Programs – the easiest way to manage & issue stipend cards to your entire company 🤞
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🚨 Facebook is hiring Product Design, Content Strategy, UX Research interns for Summer 2021!
They are also hiring Product Designers and Content Strategists (University Grads) ✨
Apply 👉
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March was a busy month at
@tryramp
. We announced our new fundraise at a $8.1B valuation.
But our team was heads down, building. Here are the 7 key releases 👇
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week 2 of being a PM in 2021:
making memes for tomorrow's announcement 👀
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1. People matter most.
Exceptional teams drive results. Empowered teams with narrow focus are unstoppable. Great talent attracts other great people – nearly all the early hires at Ramp were referrals.
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Organizing dinners for designers & builders during nft nyc! Who’s going to be in town?
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Who’s building AI-assisted web design?
Today: Take screenshots of sites & bring them into Figma to design
Future: Type “Landing page like Stripe mixed with Linear”
You’ll get multiple layouts with modern frontend stack like Typescript & Tailwind CSS
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🚨 we're hiring staff product designers & design leads at
@tryramp
we're growing fast & we just announced our new brand + $30M fundraise!
who are the best designers you know?
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It's been quite a ride and we're excited to unveil our new brand! More about our process soon 🎉
On that note, we're hiring a Product Design Lead! If you want to build the financial stack of the future, DM me 👋
The Ramp you know and love has a new look!
Meet your partner in finance; the no BS corporate card platform that can help you spend less so you can grow faster. Check it out !
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I’m convinced that there’s no such thing as a 30min meeting. It should either be 20min or 45min.
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design is the fastest and cheapest method of measuring interest
i designed bank cli in figma in 15min & people reached out asking to beta test or invest
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3. Take asymmetric bets.
@karimatiyeh
has been a great mentor to me. Every conversation with him pushes my thinking. I love his framework for asymmetric outcomes, whether it’s hiring, product roadmap, fundraising, or even selecting vendors.
10X everything.
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We're bringing financial fitness to every company in Miami.
Founders & finance teams: If you're in Miami or moving shortly, get a $305 bonus with
@tryramp
.
Inspired by
@FrancisSuarez
and
@m_franceschetti
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been heads down building for our
@tryramp
customers ⚡️
we're shipping so many improvements & i'm pumped for our big release tomorrow that solves a huge headache for larger companies!
stay tuned ✌️
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So, what’s next?
Leaving Ramp has been a very difficult decision.
But I couldn’t be more excited to start my founder journey.
More to share soon!
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now has over 5,300 monthly visitors and has connected over 35,000 students to companies of all sizes.
Today, I sent my first email to over 2,500 subscribers! Read about new initiatives 👇
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@lennysan
Figma: design system + wireframing + prototyping
LogRocket: identifying user frustrations & poor UX
Amplitude: data analytics for product event metrics
Redash: sql queries for product usage metrics
Linear: task management
Slab: knowledge management
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Ramp turned 5 today! It's been 4 years since I first joined Ramp at 20 employees in March 2020.
I've shared so many memories with the Ramp team. Some highlights:
@karimatiyeh
would randomly call me to jam on product strategy, recruiting, and company building.
@eglyman
would be…
Ramp turns 5 today, and I want to share what we’ve learned about what it takes to build a great company.
In 1827 days, this team has built one of the fastest growing startups in history and assembled some of the most talented people in tech. More importantly, we’ve recovered…
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We’re hiring designers, engineers, product ops, marketers, and more :) DMs open!
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it's too much pressure now to post anything but thanks to everyone, now I'm chief meme officer
@tryramp
according to
@karimatiyeh
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love to see the design team at find great talent who convert fulltime from !
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Today
@tryramp
, we launched Multi-Step Approvals to seamlessly route spend requests across large organizations 🎉
Make your approval workflows more efficient with Ramp 💫
+ Do all of this with our Slack integration!
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✏️ I wrote a quick guide on how to find new grad product design roles!
- Expand your search and cold email
- Reach out to startups
- Keep calm & repeat
- Build an audience on the internet
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launched my new site earlier today and
@rauchg
(the founder of next.js & vercel) DM’ed me with feedback
Just incredible 😮🙌
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Miami until Saturday 🌴
Who’s building in fintech or web3? Let’s hang
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Ramp team using the FigJam photobooth widget during our brainstorming session today!
great work
@keeyeny
+
@figmadesign
team
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I’m starting a company with my two closest friends.
Young, Kevin, and I have been building together for 10+ years.
We were classmates at Stuyvesant HS, roommates at Cornell, and teammates at Ramp.
Fun fact: during his tenure, Young shipped the most code at
@tryramp
.
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update: the designer has plagiarized another person's work (4 total so far)
thanks everyone for the support & realized everyone knows each other in the design industry!
we're all connected and taking next steps 🙏
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my ask for 2021: no more waitlists
just let me try your product pls or I will forget about it
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gm app reminds me of my consumer design days
here's IDK, a social polling app that i built with friends
fun building but hard to create a sticky experience, curious how these consumer social apps stay relevant
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2. Raise the bar.
We go the extra mile at Ramp in everything we do and it's a massive competitive advantage. We do things that don't scale. Engineers still get on calls with customers to resolve issues.
That's why Ramp is the leading Spend Management solution on the market.
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Grateful for all the support and interest last week about our acquisition and Ramp Procurement.
Key role that we're hiring for is Product Operations.
Work closely with customers and directly impact our ambitious roadmap.
DM me! Full JD in reply.
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Crazy times but some news:
I joined the design team
@tryramp
and I am super excited to get to work!
Story on how I ended up here...
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Thank you
@karimatiyeh
@eglyman
@genejaelee
@diegozaks
@geoffintech
for taking a bet on me as an early Designer and PM.
And shoutout to my tech lead
@vral
for your great partnership and leadership.
I’ll miss you, Ramp fam!
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My biggest takeaways in 2022 were
1) Health is wealth
2) Spend more time with family
To a healthier and happier 2023 💪
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My heart goes out to the victims families in this tragic hate crime against Asians
Thinking about my mom, aunts, grandmas, and others today
#StopAsianHate
I’ve donated to CAAAV in NYC & I hope that you find ways to support the Asian community
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I share my tips & advice on how to succeed in your tech internship:
- how to do 1:1’s with your manager
- building rapport with your team
- networking within company
- organization & communication
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Do you remember lurking in HH Design & reading as many Medium articles as possible on UX Design, Interviewing, and Design Process? 😅
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value add investor
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OpenAI is hiring for a mobile team. ChatGPT native app is coming. RIP "ChatGPT for iOS" startups.
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love to see continue to help design students :')
is your company hiring a designer or an intern? DM me!
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Incredible results from the Ramp team in just 4 years.
I’ve always been inspired by the team’s high agency mentality and customer obsession.
Grateful to have spent 2.5 years here right out of college. Best place to learn & grow.
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who's building APIs for web3 platforms?
we had to hack together multiple APIs to build the backend for
@CryptoWrapped
we need better data infrastructure to buidl in web3
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the project I've been driving at
@tryramp
launched today on
@ProductHunt
!
stop paying for costly expense management software & switch to Ramp!
reimbursements and corporate cards all-in-one 👀
would appreciate your support 🙏
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