Karim Atiyeh

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But that was the very first version of Ramp.

It's just like really good mapping of receipts.

In terms of how we thought about investors, Eric and I did not really want to raise at the beginning.

Part of the reason we wanted to start Ramp as well was it's one of those things that we could do because we had the right to do.

Because we were second-time founders, we had some capital set aside and...

Building a business like Ramp required capital because you need to fund the receivables of your customers.

We're like, great, we have more capital than we did as first-time founders.

We have more credibility.

We don't really need investors.

The first investor that we got connected with was because around that time I was playing Fortnite with my brother and some of his friends.

And it turns out that there were a lot of other founders and people in the startup ecosystem that we were playing with.

And one of them was Dalyan Asparov at Founders Fund.

He was pretty sure on some sort of garden leave because he had left Kosla with Keith Raboy and was about to join Founders Fund.

And I was still at Capital One, still thinking about Ramp, exactly how it was going to look like.

And when we were...

We're gonna leave Capital One to start the company.

And I remember telling Deleon, I was like, oh, I think we had put in our notice.

I remember telling Deleon, I think I'm gonna stop playing Fortnite.

I need to start getting serious because Eric and I are starting another company.

And he got very curious and he tells me that he and Keith had just started, I think, at Founders Fund.

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