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Businesses are dropping ad spend fast. April @tryramp spend data showed 54% froze or cut budgets with retail leading at 61%. A similar pullback is reflected in TV ads, as w/ Meta and Google too (conflicting w/ reporting to date). The trend is clear: folks are bracing for impact
Every time I’m mildly involved in a launch like this I’m so impressed by everyone I work with. We’ve been using this internally for months now and it’s incredible. Software progress typically goes in increments, and this one is truly a big jump.
RAMP AGENTS ARE HERE. Built on Ramp Intelligence, powered by @OpenAI's reasoning models.
The crisp ocean air and murmur of bell buoys always reminds me of how more businesses should save time and money with @tryramp
Last month @cursor_ai overtook GitHub Copilot in business spend, @tryramp data shows. Both continue adding users + spend, more than enough to go around in this market. But goes to show that first movers != market dominance. Not included: Claude Code, small but growing
AI Overviews are driving more ad clicks!
Google is now the most profitable company in the world, surpassing Apple and Microsoft over the last 6 months. Trailing 12-Month Net Income: Google: $111B Apple: $97B Microsoft: $97B $GOOGL $AAPL $MSFT
We’ve 4x’d our AEO test velocity at @tryramp over the last two months, and Profound has been a huge part of that. Shoot me a message if you’re obsessed with solving the LLM visibility challenge.
Excited to announce Profound's $20M Series A funding, led by @kleinerperkins with participation from @khoslaventures, @nvidia, @Saga_Ventures, @southpkcommons & @svangel Featuring angels: @rauchg, @AndrewKaram, @jordihays, @FoundersPodcast & @jsngr
Late nights, clunky processes, receipt chasing. We’re taking those on, so you can get back to what you actually love: finance.
My favorite conspiracy theory (because I made it up) is that someone is controlling the weather so the northeast gets rain every weekend so we all get depressed and lose a few bps of GDP
Wonder what Albertsons uses for procurement. Building the workflow automation to catch these increases in @tryramp would take ~10 minutes.
"Albertsons tells suppliers to eat the cost of tariffs: ‘We are not accepting cost increases’" fortune.com/2025/04/25/alb…
I’m back from pat leave, Ramp has a new Boston office, and our new and improved spend report is out. Spring is here. Joy!
35.5% of U.S. businesses already use AI. That’s 4.4x higher than the U.S. Census Bureau reports. In our latest Business Spending Report, we examine recent trends in AI, advertising, and more by analyzing billions in transactions from 30,000+ companies. Link in the replies👇
I’m really proud of how we have stayed ahead of the curve over the last year+ on improving our results within LLMs. Can’t recommend @tryprofound enough. Their team moves incredibly fast and is miles ahead of everyone else.
New case study on how @tryramp used @tryprofound to increase how often they show up in ChatGPT results. We're honored to work with such an insane team & excited to showcase how the most forward-thinking marketers are thinking about this new category. (link to case study below)
One of my favorite parts of Ramp is how enthusiastic all teams about using and enforcing things like our writing style guide. Can’t wait to use this outside of the product!
New case study on how @tryramp used @tryprofound to increase how often they show up in ChatGPT results. We're honored to work with such an insane team & excited to showcase how the most forward-thinking marketers are thinking about this new category. (link to case study below)
Come work with me!
I'm hiring for critical GTM IC role(s) at @tryramp . You'll be the de-facto GTM leader on a product line, an equal partner to my PMs, and your goal will be to launch & scale business lines. As an ex-PE person, I'm looking for PE/VC/consulting backgrounds with product & market…