Max Freeman

Over the past three months, weekly active users on the Ramp MCP has grown 10x as more customers reach into the product through Claude, ChatGPT, and other agents. Sharing some learnings as we’ve scaled this product below (thread 👇)

Had a pretty interesting experience opening a new business bank account as a founder. We’ve raised a decent amount (can’t disclose, but >$1M - this matters later). Tried @mercury first. Got rejected 3 times. No explanation. No feedback. Nothing. We have enough capital (and as far as I know that's what they require) and just… silence. Says a lot about the company they’ve built. A few days later, I tried @tryramp after seeing their announcement. Within hours, the account was live. 2 days later, the physical card was at my door. But the real difference: Execution. Ramp had people in my inbox 24/7 making sure everything was unblocked, fast. No friction. No guessing. Just speed. That gap is everything. In the AI era, the winners won’t just have better tech - they’ll execute better than anyone else. For what it’s worth, this reset my bar. I know I want to build a @tryramp when it comes to customer experience.

AI labs: - Ramp - OpenAI - Deepmind - Anthropic - XAi

The same force driving your growth is your least-governed cost. You can tell me your AWS bill to the penny. Break it down by service, by team, by environment. You've been doing it for a decade. Your AI bill? You're guessing. No tool in the market connects token-level usage, invoice data, and card-level spend. So we built one. Ramp AI Spend Intelligence is one place to track, govern, understand, and most importantly → optimize your AI spend. Try it today.

Introducing Ramp AI Spend Intelligence. A way to track and control spend all the way down to the token level across providers. Tokenmaxxing requires tokentracking. This is how your business will get ahead (or fall behind) with AI. The best companies are investing aggressively in AI. And it’s working. Our data proves it. Since January 2025, average monthly AI token spend across Ramp customers increased 13x. Not 13%. Thirteen *TIMES. But visibility into that spend has remained virtually nonexistent. No one knows how fast it’s adding up, where it’s going, who’s purchasing what. It’s a financial mess. And AI spend is fundamentally different from every other cost category. A single prompt template change can triple your bill overnight. An agent stuck in a loop can burn through $50k before anyone notices. No tool in the market connects token-level usage, invoice data, and card-level spend. So we built one. Ramp customers can get early access today! ramp.com/blog/trillion-…

@damccormick13 👊👊

Big Day for Create: - $20M investment round from Alliance Consumer Growth (ACG), Mike Repole (vitaminwater, BODYAMOR), and existing investor Unilever Ventures. - The round closed in August 2025. We've more than doubled revenue since, are run rating well above $100M, and have been profitable for nearly a year. We are continuing to grow aggressively across all channels. - Creatine + Electrolytes Launch: Listen, I am not going to sit here claiming that this is some major scientific breakthrough. People have been mixing creatine and electrolytes for about 30 years...and for good reason. They just work better together. But for whatever reason, no brand had really gone after this opportunity in a big, coherent way. Create is going after it. 5g of creatine monohydrate, 500mg of sodium, 250mg potassium, 50mg magnesium, 1000mg of taurine. Launching in 3 flavors (available in a variety pack) today and now available on our website and Amazon...and at all Targets nationwide in mid-April. I have personally been taking 2-4 of these per day. Passionfruit is my favorite flavor, but think we did a strong job on all of the flavors. Variety Pack should help you identify your daily driver. Bunch of other things we'll be sharing soon (brand refresh, new packaging form factors Target expansion, team growth, etc.) More to come...

European expansion prep: • beret • baguette • build great software

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.

the CULTURE

Companies don’t miss budget because they’re reckless. They miss it because they’re flying blind. 3 months straight on target once they had visibility. This is why we build and obsess to serve the highest performing companies.

Huge news for Denver fans and finance teams: The @Broncos run on Ramp.

Having recently used both Workday and Ramp for expenses, it's unbelievable that these two products that are ostensibly competitors. We're talking a difference in product quality of no smaller of a magnitude than 100x. How does Workday still exist?

Today, Ramp raised another $300M at a $32B valuation. In the past year our revenue has doubled to over $1B, growing 10x faster than the median public SaaS. We all know money talks — we're teaching it to think. Getting big no longer means getting slow.

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@nickabouzeid @RivetTax Let’s go. Thrilled for you and the Rivet team, Nick 👊👊

Today is Day 652 @RivetTax. Since launch, we’ve filed over 1000 tax returns for companies like Cursor & Cognition. We've become #1 most-rated firm on Sam's List. But today is special, because we get to announce our $5.1m seed round led by XYZ Ventures & Susa Ventures.

Today we are announcing our $1B Series C, but money isn’t the story. The story is what we’ll do with it, and the scale of the challenge ahead. Our mission isn’t constrained by capital, supply, or demand. It’s constrained by talent. To build America’s next great power company, we need the engineers, operators, and creatives ready to take on the challenge to join us. Power is the most important product in the world. It runs through everything: our homes, hospitals, schools, factories, and future. And the grid that delivers it is breaking. At Base, we’re building the future of power so human progress can accelerate. In the past two years, we’ve grown from an idea into one of the fastest growing energy companies in America. Now we’re entering a new phase of growth. Our first manufacturing site is rising in the heart of Austin, inside the former Austin American-Statesman printing press. Here we’ll build our own hardware to meet surging demand and scale nationwide. This is a key step in putting a battery on every home in the country. Few teams get to say their work powers human progress. We do. With a billion dollars of fuel, our next wave of growth will be defined not by capital, but by people who choose to step up, take ownership, and build the next great American power company. The old system is breaking. Come build the new one. Our Series C was led by Addition, with participation from both new and existing investors including Trust Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed, Andreessen Horowitz, Altimeter, StepStone, Elad Gil, 137 Ventures, Terrain, Waybury, Ribbit, CapitalG, Spark, BOND, Lowercarbon, Avenir, Glade Brook, Positive Sum, and 1789.

Rox (@rox_ai) scaled to 25 million revenue agents for Global 2000 customers — all while still in beta. Today, Rox comes out of beta as the world’s first open, globally available revenue agent platform. Just as coding agents 10×ed engineering, revenue agents are doing the same for customer work. Humans are evolving from workers to orchestrators, while agents manage the end-to-end customer lifecycle. The winners — like @tryramp, @cognition, and @nvidia — have already transformed. Their frontlines are supercharged, their back offices automated, and their employees are being re-skilled to be AI-native. The laggards are falling behind – they need to transform now or risk irrelevance. Global 2000 boards want to transform now but incumbent CRM and SaaS tools lack the three essentials to deliver ROI fast: AI talent, full context, and enterprise readiness. In contrast, Rox delivers ROI within 90 days, charges only for agent actions, and takes on all forward-deployed engineering. - “Everyone needs an AI revenue operating system.” — Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA - “I close more when I use Rox — that’s the bottom line.” —@max11free, VP Sales of Ramp - “We f*ing ripped out CRM, threw it out” —Tanay Tiwari, CIO of Puma Energy We exist to serve and support the AI transformation of global revenue — and starting today, we’re open for business. (article linked below)

@kolelee_ @novaholdings You’re the man, Kole. Can’t wait to see you dominate.

In middle school, with money earned performing magic shows I opened my first investment account. At Stanford, captivated by the markets, I realized a paradigm shift was on the horizon. Today, I am excited to announce our $5.7M raise, led by @novaholdings. With the developments in AI, I knew I could no longer wait to start @vigillabs. At Vigil, we are building the engine to understand markets in realtime, designed for our own traders.