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Ed Ludlow

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Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

You have the who's who list of investors.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

And what I find interesting is, not unique to you, it's come up a lot recently, you sat on a lot of the money that you raised for quite a long time.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

You've gone out and done an acquisition.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

What's that like, deciding to spend the funds raised?

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

Look, with everything we do, just as we're trying to help our customers get more from every dollar an hour, we want to, too.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

And I think you're exactly right.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

The business has raised more than $2 billion of equity capital.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

The vast, vast majority of it is still on balance sheet, and Ramp is even generating cash, even as we're one of the fastest-growing companies in the world now.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

Interesting.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

Would you give me a number on that?

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

Any sort of financial metric on the health of how it's going?

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

You know, I would say this.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

We've had four straight quarters of accelerating growth.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

The businesses call it doubling every year, which is really an outlier.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

And last year, I believe together, we shared that last summer we passed more than a billion dollars a year in revenue in U.S.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

dollars.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

And so we've seen that growth rate even accelerate.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

So it's quite unique.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

You run a tight ship, and you're trying to grow Ramp, and I really appreciate sharing the data on that point.

Bloomberg Tech
Meta Cable Expansion Stalled by Iran Conflict

The landscape's very interesting, like Brex selling to Capital One, as an example.