EP 20: Interview with Ramp’s Eric Glyman (+ explaining Cartoon Avatars’ origins) and a Crypto Debate with Mike Dudas and Zach Weinberg

The Logan Bartlett Show

Product Vilosity

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I feel like you guys ship product so quickly. Communicating to customers is the easy part. But how have you set up a culture that enables that level of prod vilosity, right? Are they are, are these discreet teams that are operating etonomously and sort of acting as g ms.? How do you hire people that can successfully ship things quickly? And how do you get product into the wild as fast as you do super good? Was, i think there's two sets of it. So one is, like, i think it's a funky product of the history, um, from from paribus to ramp. The other is, by focusing a lot on getting process really

(01:14) Introducing Zach Weinberg and Mike Dudas

(06:06) Mike’s background

(19:02) Exciting about crypto

(24:18) Zach vs crypto

(32:04) Inflation hedge

(38:25) Does Zach own Crypto

(41:00) Banking in foreign countries

(53:59) Stablecoin vs wire transfer

(59:00) KYC

(1:03:57) Crypto insurance

(1:09:24) Eric Glyman: Welcome

(1:11:32) Eric Glyman: Background

(1:16:57) Eric Glyman: Mandarin Debate video

(1:20:28) Eric Glyman: Starting Paribus

(1:24:51) Eric Glyman: Selling to Capital One

(1:28:57) Eric Glyman: Fintech’s success

(1:33:49) Eric Glyman: What is Ramp?

(1:43:10) Eric Glyman: Learnings as a 2-time founder

(1:48:13) Eric Glyman: Being purposeful

(1:52:55) Eric Glyman: Delegating as a CEO

(1:58:53) Eric Glyman: Building the inevitability of success

(2:02:43) Eric Glyman: Thinking through your investor base

(2:08:29) Eric Glyman: How do you determine your valuation?

(2:13:15) Eric Glyman: Advice for executives

(2:18:03) Eric Glyman: Craziest investor stories

(2:20:40) Eric Glyman: The origin of Cartoon Avatars

(2:21:54) Eric Glyman: Relationship between companies and media

(2:28:58) Outro

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