Gaurav Misra & Dwight Churchill - Building Captions

**Patrick O'Shaughnessy** (0:00)
This year's presenting sponsor for Invest Like the Best is Ramp. Ramp has built a command and control system for companies' finances. You can issue cards, manage approvals, make vendor payments of all kinds, and even automate closing your books all in one place. We did an incredibly deep dive on the company and its product as part of this new partnership, and what we heard and saw in customer surveys over and over again was that Ramp is the best product by far. We've been users ourselves since I started my business, since long before I was able to spend so much time with the founders of Ramp and their team. Over the holiday, I was with Ramp's founders. Those that listen know that I believe that the best companies are reflections of the people that started them and run them. I've always loved the idea that Apple was really just Steve Jobs with 10,000 lives. Having gotten to know Ramp's founders well, I can tell you that they are absolutely maniacal about their mission to save people time and money. As far as I can tell, they do not stop working or thinking about the product and how to make it better. I'm sure they're proud of what they've built, but all I ever hear when I'm with them is them talk about what they can do to improve and expand what Ramp does for its customers. I used to joke that this podcast should be called This Is Who You Are Up Against. I often had that same thought when I'm with Ramp's founders, Kareem, Zach and Eric. I would not want to compete with these guys. I wish all the products I used had a team as hell bent on making the product better in every conceivable way. I could list everything Ramp does here, but the list would be stale in a week. I highly recommend you just start using it to run your business' finances today. This year, I'll share a bunch of things I'm learning from these founders and this company, and I think it will make you realize why we are so excited to have this partnership with them and why we run our business on Ramp. To get started, go to ramp.com.
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**Katie Ellenberg** (3:57)
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