Patrick O'Shaughnessy

What would a day look like in those early days?

If you were to teach a class on fundraising for startups now, you've done this as masterfully as anyone with the cards you were dealt.

What would the lesson plan look like?

Yeah, I think he matched what he was sending me, which was awesome.

And that kicked it off.

Wow.

We're glossing over a lot.

Maybe we'll keep returning.

I love that story.

Let's get to the point now where things are starting to feel like, okay, now we have to build this next thing.

Maybe this is a good opportunity to ask you what you now know about the world of fitness and people that want to get fit.

What becomes your North Star for what product can we build here that's scalable, that can get to what it's become?

Everyone's very fond of the Elon algorithm for company building now.

It's been passed around as like one method for doing this.

If you had to distill your algorithm for how you proceeded from that initial kernel of an insight of, okay, here's something that people are paying for and like, and we can do something with this all the way through to where the product is today.

What's been your, as the CEO algorithm for that iterative improvement to get from the original kernel to now?

Your finance team isn't losing money on big mistakes.

It's leaking through a thousand tiny decisions nobody's watching.

Ramp puts guardrails on spending before it happens.

Real-time limits, automatic rules, zero firefighting.