Learnings from Building and Scaling Ramp’s Growth Engine — Ramp Engineering
The best and worst companies in the world all have ambitious goals, but only the best few achieve them. Why is that? One answer is that it’s the underlying systems and principles that these companies have built that enables them to reach those goals. In this post, I’ll walk through some of the principles that I and the growth team here at Ramp have practiced and used to achieve some of our unprecedented growth in just the past couple years since our inception as a company. For reference, Ramp launched our first product in February 2020. By February 2021, annualized run rate revenue hit $12 million. And a year after that, we crossed $100 million. Now at the end of 2023, we’re far beyond that number. The main principles and learnings I’ll go over that have helped us scale growth: But first, what does a “growth” team do? The specific activities of a growth team can vary from company to company. But here at Ramp, for most of the time since we created the team, the main north star has been
November 30, 2023 Every company wants to grow. Every company wants to succeed. Few do. The best and worst companies in the world all have ambitious goals, but only the best few achieve them. Why is that? One answer is that it’s the underlying systems and principles that these companies have built that enables them to reach those goals. In this post, I’ll walk through some of the principles that I and the growth team here at Ramp have practiced and used to achieve some of our unprecedented growth in just the past couple years since our inception as a company. For reference, Ramp launched…
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