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Making big bets in business — Ramp Engineering

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How we built Ramp by taking asymmetric risks, and why you should, too

October 12, 2021 Let's start off with a little backstory. Born and raised in Lebanon, I came to the US to study but ended up deciding to stay long term to find work. After graduating from Harvard, I moved to New York and started doing some consulting work but very quickly found myself wanting to go back to writing code and building software, which I had been doing for years up to that point. This led me, along with our CEO Eric Glyman and Gene Lee, to start a company in 2014 called Paribus, where we focused on helping consumers save money. The Paribus value prop was simple: whenever the…

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