“I want to share with you a six step process that you need to go through… perform the process manually… document it… test it… tweak it… prove it… then automate it.”
“When we launched the company … we could help the average business cut their expenses by about 2% per year… Today, a typical business running on ramp is able to cut their expenses by about 7.5% per year.”
Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist · Ep 166: Eric Glyman on Ramp's Meteoric Growth, Selling Outcomes vs Products, and the Future of White-Collar Work
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Used AI to automate expense report and invoice processing, eliminating dozens of manual steps, auto-matching receipts, auto-coding, and negotiating spend
Typical business cuts expenses by about 7.5% per year (earlier 2%)
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