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@alexlmiller This is actually awesome.

Only in Washington DC: the AirBnb comes with a shredder

@trengriffin @edgaralandough At $2,000 for a whole boat or $500/head for a six pack, that’s only $20-30 per can* *Before tips and cannery fees

@edgaralandough Line catch your own albacore tuna, clean and bleed it minutes later and have it canned. It has far higher quality and better taste than a $1.50 can of Chicken of The Sea skipjack tuna. Higher omega-3 in the albacore too. 99 cans of albacore pictured.

A $1.50 can of tuna has 20g of protein. That's the same as a $4 protein bar, with zero added sugar and zero artificial ingredients. Mix it with rice, a squeeze of lemon, and some black pepper — high-protein meal in under 10 minutes, for less than $2 total. You don't need an expensive meal plan to eat well. You just need to know what to buy.

@histories_arch Wild that it used to be made with Halibut. This is what was taken from us.

In 1962, a struggling McDonald's franchise owner in Cincinnati walked into Ray Kroc's office with an idea for a fish sandwich, and Kroc told him: "You're always coming up here with a bunch of crap. I don't want my stores stunk up with the smell of fish." That franchise owner was Lou Groen, the neighborhood around his restaurant at 5425 West North Bend Road in Cincinnati was 87 percent Catholic, and on Fridays during Lent his daily sales had dropped to 75 dollars. He had a wife, twins at home, and a McDonald's that was bleeding money one meatless Friday at a time. He had watched the Frisch's Big Boy across the street doing full business every Friday because they served a fish sandwich, and he had gone to Chicago to tell Ray Kroc that McDonald's needed one too. Kroc was not interested. The reason Kroc was not interested turned out to be that he was already working on his own meatless Friday sandwich. It was called the Hula Burger and it was a slice of grilled pineapple with a piece of cheese on a bun. Kroc believed in it enough to propose a competition. On Good Friday 1962 both sandwiches would be sold at select locations and whichever one sold more units would earn a permanent place on the McDonald's menu. Groen's granddaughter Erica Shadoin, who still owns and operates that same Cincinnati franchise today, later recalled what her grandfather said the moment he heard Kroc's idea: he knew immediately that his fish sandwich was going to win. The final score on Good Friday 1962 was Filet-O-Fish 350, Hula Burger 6. Kroc bought Groen a new suit as his prize. What Groen had understood and Kroc had missed was something almost embarrassingly simple. The Catholic population of Cincinnati was not avoiding meat on Fridays because they wanted pineapple. They were avoiding meat because their faith required it, and what they wanted in its place was something that actually tasted like a meal. A breaded halibut fillet with tartar sauce on a steamed bun tasted like a meal. A grilled pineapple ring with cheese on a hamburger bun tasted like someone had run out of ideas on a Thursday night. Groen had spent months perfecting his recipe before he ever went to Chicago. He had even noticed one of his employees putting a slice of cheese on a fish sandwich he was making for himself one afternoon and decided it was a good enough idea to steal. That half slice of cheese has been on every Filet-O-Fish ever since. By 1963 the sandwich was rolling out across the entire McDonald's system. By 1965 it became the first new item ever added to the permanent McDonald's national menu since Kroc had taken over the chain. Ray Kroc acknowledged the Hula Burger's failure in his autobiography Grinding it Out, writing: "It was a giant flop when we tried it in our stores. One customer said, I like the hula, but where's the burger?" Today McDonald's sells 300 million Filet-O-Fish sandwiches every year. Twenty-three percent of those are sold during Lent. Lou Groen retired in 1985 owning 43 McDonald's franchises. He passed away in 2011. His granddaughter Erica still runs the restaurant at 5425 West North Bend Road in Cincinnati where the whole thing started, the 66th McDonald's franchise ever opened, the place where a desperate man with 75 dollars in daily Friday sales invented one of the most enduring items in the history of fast food because a pineapple slice on a bun was never going to be the answer. © Eats History #archaeohistories

The first thing I did at @tryramp was set up distributed tracing, structured logging, and metrics for Inspect, our background coding agent. We now have full visibility in to everything the system is doing: the browser, CF workers/DOs, @modal sandboxes, database calls, etc. Most importantly, Inspect now has visibility in to itself. It can self-triage runtime errors it encounters and create PRs to fix them. Every morning, it reviews the past 24 hours of its own @datadoghq dashboard, identifies systemic issues, new errors, and long tail latencies, and has a summary + PR waiting for me at 9am.

> Find a team that’s been obsessively solving a painful problem for years (guest travel) > Give them a bigger platform > Let them keep building That's the whole playbook. Welcome to Ramp, Juno!

I do this all the time now. Works very well.

@buccocapital @travisk Of the two, HUBS seems like it’s potentially more mispriced today (based on historical relative market caps). Agree that both have deeper than appreciated moats.

People are destroying SMB B2B software but there’s a meaningful chance HUBS/INTU are AI winners: I was listening to @travisk who recently said: “LTV:CAC with a sales machine, especially if you go [after] small businesses, is life on hard mode. Anybody who’s crushed it on SMB, those guys are special individuals who've made that happen. Because life in the SMB B2B world is no joke." Hard mode. Sounds moaty to me. Some thoughts on how the market could be wrong re: HUBS/INTU 1. SMB is brutally, brutally hard to make the math work, so counter intuitively there’s less competition. And in some sense the survivors are anti-fragile. They keep consolidating share during downturns 2. They have aggregated the customers and have the scale economics 3. AI will encourage full-platform adoption as agents benefit from max surface area and clean data 4. SMB are less tech savvy. Will just want tech that works. 5. Can either roll up space or launch incremental features cheaply w AI 6. Low cost/freemium competition is not new. Vibe coding doesn’t change that. 7. AI will cause an explosion in small business creation

life imitates art

@tryramp @MatteoZanellii

@MatteoZanellii we can go deeper

Baguette on the corporate card, AI on the expense report

BREAKING: Ramp is coming to Europe

on AI budgets and token cost: - no one knows how to estimate/project this spend for the quarter, let alone the year - finance teams are taking screenshots of admin usage dashboards - AI token cost will outpace salaries - OAI/Ant/Google are not incentivized to help you - it's the fastest growing and least understood line item in every company's budget right now

The future is now.

The Taco Bell in Pacifica, CA

@evrgn11112231 @undrvalue This is why Google wins IMO

@undrvalue The most obvious thing but only for 1P capacity.

What if hyperscaler capex is generational moat building from disciplined capital allocators

@MikeHotDogMayor @micsolana Good striped bass spot right behind it (fish at night). “The Taco Bell hole.”

Wealthfront used to publish a "Career-Launching Companies" list annually: the rocketships with PMF, revenue growth, the ideal places to start and accelerate your career. AFAIK, they haven't put out a list since 2021. Today, @tryramp's monthly Top Software Vendors is one of the best signals for where to work, where to invest, or who to sell to. Here are March's breakout + fastest growing vendors. (Or as I call them, the 2nd through 11th best place to work... because we're hiring 🚀)

Federal agencies have reported an estimated $2.8 trillion in improper payments since 2003. Some from fraud, some error. But all the result of manual and fragmented financial systems. Today, those teams are invited to the future. This is Ramp for Public Sector. A product with dedicated environments for FedRAMP compliance and U.S.-only data residency. 1,600+ government and education orgs were already using Ramp. Now, for the first time, they’re getting dedicated FedRAMP-compliant environments and U.S.-only data residency, with policy enforcement, spend visibility, and audit trails baked into every swipe. Here's what that looks like for our customers: - @Ketchum_Idaho's 4-person finance team led 18 departments out of the paper era, reclaiming 100+ staff hours every month. - @UTKnoxville Athletics runs spend at SEC speed, freeing up 24.2 hours/month on average through accounting automations. - @KIPP_Nashville runs unified finance across 9 schools, cutting procurement approvals from a month to under a week and accelerating month-end close by 15 days. - Naples Airport Authority gave their teams over 22 hours/month back and put more than $50k in cashback toward an employee hurricane relief fund. - The City of Mount Vernon, Washington modernized its P-card program to make reconciliation >90% faster + saved taxpayers over $100k. No more reconstructing the story after the fact. Financial infrastructure has finally caught up to what public sector finance teams have needed all along.

@lulumeservey brb — buying a 191,000 lumen Imalent MS32 spotlight to power a Jimmy John bat signal and GET THIS MAN OUT OF RETIREMENT.

Layup opportunity for #2 ranked fast food CEO to film a brutal chompmogging

OH from Eng yday: “I Slack Inspect from my phone and push PRs while walking my dog.” @loujaybee’s micro site is an A+ explanation of the How behind this shift in how we build @tryramp. h/t to Ramp Daily AI Brief for surfacing.