Zack
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To all the new AI money buyers in SF, just know that if you cross the bridge you can get a super sweet home in Piedmont for a fraction of some of the SF homes.
Like this 1915 Julia Morgan home thats nearly 12k sq/ft on about an acre that closed for 8.4M last week.
Has a gym, pool, movie theater, and bay views!
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@shiyam_kashfiq Inspect (Ramp’s background agent) sessions being public + encouraging the team to start sessions in public (leading by example like Tobi is ideal!)
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@zack_field Public progress tends to speed up shipping. Which tools made that easier?
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building in public w/ your own tools >> building in private
Zach Bruggeman@zachbruggeman
Between us having built this at @tryramp with Inspect, and watching other great companies like @WorkOS, @stripe and @Shopify build this, some clear takeaways are emerging: 1. AI adoption multiplies exponentially when it’s done in public. If you work with tooling that keeps learnings private, you’re doing a disservice to your entire business. When every knowledge role is rebuilding how it works, you need everyone to contribute to the corpus of knowledge by default. 2. Bespoke tooling that’s shaped to your business is easier than ever to build. Losing time trying to shape your processes around other products isn’t a trade off you have to make anymore. Choose platforms that will let you stay flexible to build what works for you and your business. 3. Cultures of experimentation are more important than ever with AI. We are still so early. Shape your business to take big bets, and cut losses early. Whether this be for internal efforts like these, or the product you ship, now’s not the time to be risk adverse. It’s a far greater risk to think that anyone has won the game.
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Midday is joining Ramp
We started Midday to build something we wanted for ourselves and it grew into something much bigger than we expected.
And here is the story behind it 🧵
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Zack retweetledi
Today, @AnthropicAI added @tryramp Data as a connector in Claude. You can now ask Claude what 50,000+ businesses are actually spending on and get an answer grounded in real spend data. Vendors, categories, growth, switching patterns, and more.
For decades, @Rich_Barton companies have focused on "turning the lights on." Homebuyers have @zillow, job seekers have @Glassdoor. But how companies actually spend, operate, and make decisions has stayed dark.
Today, that's changing. The people best served by transparent market data aren't the ones who can afford Bloomberg terminals. They're the founder sizing a first contract, the procurement lead negotiating a renewal, the researcher studying AI adoption, the agent booking software on a user's behalf. AI has made those users far more capable but only if the data they need is actually available.
Ramp Data is live in Claude today, and accessible via API, MCP, and CLI. Every market gets better with information transparency. B2B software is next.
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Zack retweetledi
The stablecoin engineering team at @tryramp is growing. Join us to build new infrastructure accelerating how we can support global businesses.
Some highlights we have shipped so far:
1. 24/7 global payments in fiat currency
2. Instant global payments in USDC or USDT
3. Corporate treasury held in stablecoins
4. Seamless connectivity between USD and stables
5. Stablecoin accounting
And we're just getting started. JD in 🧵, DM or apply if interested.
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What is unclear to me is what people actually want some new GitHub to be.
To me, the biggest challenge GitHub has always had is that it is trying to serve two very different worlds. On one side, it is a social network around code and open source. On the other, it is infrastructure for companies building software.
Those two groups operate almost in opposite ways, so the product has always been some kind of compromise between them. Because those users are so far apart, it can fail both of them in different ways.
Inside a company, you mostly just want to review and merge code. You are not discovering new code, and you are probably not forking things. You may have a monorepo, a known team, and a trusted environment. What you want from GitHub is efficiency and safety: PRs, review, ownership, CI, Actions, tests, security checks, and a clear path to getting code merged.
Open source is different. It is much more public and much less trusted. You need better ways to figure out who is contributing, what to accept, how to manage the project, how to handle issues, and how to maintain trust with people you may not know.
So are people asking for a new open source code hosting and social network, or do they want better private infrastructure for software teams? Or both?
I would never choose to build both from the start. I think every product gets better when it is more purpose-built and designed around a specific need.
You could maybe imagine some nested model, where private repos have a much simpler and more focused mode, but you can still exit that mode and browse around the public space.
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@zack_field @0xDaedalus @tether @tryramp we could not complete our application because Ramp is not accepting non-US founders
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@0xDaedalus @tether @tryramp are you planning to support US C-Corp with non-US founders? we applied to Ramp but couldn't make it because of that
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@buchan_sm @sebgoddijn influencer Shane is the Shane I didn’t know I needed
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Last week @sebgoddijn shared Glass, Ramp's internal AI productivity tool, with the world. Nearly a million views later, everyone's asking the same thing: how did you actually build this?
Read the full story here:
x.com/buchan_sm/stat…
The short of it: we built an app that builds itself
A small team of us pretty much vibe coded the entire thing in about a month. The trick was teaching Glass how to improve its own codebase.
Turns out if you discipline your AI agents well enough, they grow up to be high-functioning, self-sufficient adults in no time.
Shane Buchan@buchan_sm
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Excited to announce that @krrishd is joining @naturalpay's engineering team today from @tryramp.
At Ramp, Krish led payments and helped build the infrastructure behind bill pay, reimbursements, stablecoins, treasury, capital markets, and more.
I met him randomly at a basketball game when Natural was 100 days old. He told me that he’d read the agentic payments memo that I wrote, and I immediately clocked him as an energetic fit for the team we were building.
Right after that conversation, a mutual pulled me aside and said, “there are a few engineers that really matter at Ramp, and Krish is one of them.” So naturally, I spent the next four months convincing him to make the jump.
Krish is one of the few people I’ve met who deeply understands money movement, can move up and down the technical stack with ease, and is so broadly interesting that you can talk with him for hours before realizing just how deep his technical knowledge really goes.
During our work trial debrief walk (a ritual), one line really stuck with me: “there’s no fintech company going after anything nearly as ambitious as Natural. Either I’m joining you or starting my own thing, but the only thing I’d want to start is in agentic payments, and I think you’re doing it right.”
I’m very glad that we now get to say “we” instead of “you,” and even more glad to have him on the team.
If you want to join Krish, we’re still doubling the team. Email me: k@natural.co
natural.co/blog/why-krish…
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@MehtaCognition @eglyman let us know what you think of the MCP and CLI!
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@eglyman I'm a new user to Ramp... and big reason for switch because you have MCP and CLI access... and yet, the person I spoke with today when onboarding to Ramp didn't now you offer MCP 🤨🤔 I told them and the reply was... oh, you just taught me something about Ramp!
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A year ago we told the company we'd become the most productive company in the world. Geoff lays out what happened. No master plan, just a relentless push to get every single person building. Revenue growth has accelerated four quarters in a row.
Geoff Charles@geoffintech
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Zack retweetledi
The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.
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Every company still runs its finances on a system from 1494 — when the fastest way to move information was a man on a horse.
Wrote why I think AI and real financial networks are finally ready to replace it.
Long read, but people who've finished it seem to really like it.
Eric Glyman@eglyman
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