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George Bonaci

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

Absolutely not. No. I'm a marketer at the end of the day and I'm a growth person. That is antithetical to everything we stand for. There are some products, sure, where like, yes, it is so amazing and the word of mouth was so strong that they did build it and people did come. I think that is so out of the ordinary and leaves your fate so much to chance that that's not a good approach.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

Absolutely not. No. I'm a marketer at the end of the day and I'm a growth person. That is antithetical to everything we stand for. There are some products, sure, where like, yes, it is so amazing and the word of mouth was so strong that they did build it and people did come. I think that is so out of the ordinary and leaves your fate so much to chance that that's not a good approach.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

Absolutely not. No. I'm a marketer at the end of the day and I'm a growth person. That is antithetical to everything we stand for. There are some products, sure, where like, yes, it is so amazing and the word of mouth was so strong that they did build it and people did come. I think that is so out of the ordinary and leaves your fate so much to chance that that's not a good approach.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

Hiring for experience because they don't know any better. Like, we don't know how to do this. We'll hire someone that does. And it should be we should hire someone who doesn't? It should be like, we should actually assess for, hey, how do we determine what good looks like? And how do we test them for it? And like, could someone figure this out?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

Hiring for experience because they don't know any better. Like, we don't know how to do this. We'll hire someone that does. And it should be we should hire someone who doesn't? It should be like, we should actually assess for, hey, how do we determine what good looks like? And how do we test them for it? And like, could someone figure this out?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

Hiring for experience because they don't know any better. Like, we don't know how to do this. We'll hire someone that does. And it should be we should hire someone who doesn't? It should be like, we should actually assess for, hey, how do we determine what good looks like? And how do we test them for it? And like, could someone figure this out?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

Could someone on the team figure this out rather than hiring experts?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

Could someone on the team figure this out rather than hiring experts?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

Could someone on the team figure this out rather than hiring experts?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

They got to figure it out. Like, I think that's where the learning comes in. Like go talk to other, go determine, let's, I'm going to make this up. Like you're trying to figure out how to do cold calling. Maybe this will work for us. Maybe it won't. Go identify 10 companies that do cold calling really well.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

They got to figure it out. Like, I think that's where the learning comes in. Like go talk to other, go determine, let's, I'm going to make this up. Like you're trying to figure out how to do cold calling. Maybe this will work for us. Maybe it won't. Go identify 10 companies that do cold calling really well.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

They got to figure it out. Like, I think that's where the learning comes in. Like go talk to other, go determine, let's, I'm going to make this up. Like you're trying to figure out how to do cold calling. Maybe this will work for us. Maybe it won't. Go identify 10 companies that do cold calling really well.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

Go talk to the people that built that infrastructure and built that system, et cetera, et cetera.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

Go talk to the people that built that infrastructure and built that system, et cetera, et cetera.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

Go talk to the people that built that infrastructure and built that system, et cetera, et cetera.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

I think that's why I'm such a fan.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

I think that's why I'm such a fan.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

I think that's why I'm such a fan.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

It is probably honestly something on the influencer side of things. I don't think most people think of it as a growth channel, but influencers absolutely is, at least on the B2B side. Can you do influencer at scale? That's the hard thing. That is the fun problem to solve. I think you can. I think you treat it almost as a outbound funnel.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: Inside Ramp's Growth Engine: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever | What Worked & What Did Not Work | How to Hire for Growth | How to Find Alpha in Channels Where No One Else Can with George Bonaci

It is probably honestly something on the influencer side of things. I don't think most people think of it as a growth channel, but influencers absolutely is, at least on the B2B side. Can you do influencer at scale? That's the hard thing. That is the fun problem to solve. I think you can. I think you treat it almost as a outbound funnel.