Karim Atiyeh

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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Karim Atiyeh - Building Ramp - [Invest Like the Best, EP.445] · 21 Oct 2025 podcast

So that was a very funny experience where I had to very quickly figure out how to delegate well.

I used to go into challenges with the assumption that there was a reward at the end and that the reward would feel great.

And that was the intent and goal.

And I think the more challenges we've gone through and succeeded at conquering or surpassing, the more I realized that the reward is just a journey, to be honest.

So it's made me a lot more intentional about

doing the things that will help me enjoy the journey over time and enjoy all the challenges that come along the way because the reward for solving challenges is just more complicated challenges over time.

So you might as well just put yourself in a position where you are enjoying these challenges as much as possible.

And for me in particular, I think that has to do with more than anything else, the people I'm doing it with.

I still meet a lot of young, very talented designers, engineers, builders in general, and they always have different answers to questions like, what are you excited about and what you want to do?

And like, there's some people who really talk about the complexity of the technical challenge and some that talk about the mission itself.

And there are like different ways to answer that question.

But the one for me that I just continue to go back to is really about the people that I work with.

And I feel very lucky that Ramp has such a

multi-faceted company in some ways where we have to not only be really good at the engineering parts of it but also the design parts of it and the marketing and the sales and the risk and capital markets and fundraising and you get to work as a result with very spiky people in very different areas that are brilliant that i love learning from consistently

So I want to put together a great team, solve that challenge and win and more the team that will help us consistently win forever because I would like to build something that hopefully outlives us.

Last question for you.

What are you most proud of at Ramp?

Caliber of people we've been able to attract and the sum total of...

not just ramp but i think the great companies that will come out of ramp and the diaspora of amazing people who have spent some time at ramp and in some cases have decided to go on to start other companies i mean i still tell people who join us that i would love for ramp to be the last job that they ever have to apply for and that's been very true for a lot of people and that can mean a lot of things that can mean that people left and right will just try to approach them because they've been at ramp and

It's very easy to want to try to avoid that by hiring people who are purely incredibly loyal.

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