Rory Driscoll
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You're raising the third one, which to me is the interesting one.
The CEO of Ramp did a fairly classy post.
It's like, hey, congratulations.
He had sold a company to Capone.
It wasn't awful, right?
The Founders Fund guy did a dance on your grave post.
It was a dig, but it wasn't the top.
Perhaps, as is so often the case in America today, I'm judging quality by the opposition.
The Founders Fund did a straight dance on your grave.
If I'm a ramp, you know, from an operator, I mean, the two things are true here, guys.
From an operational perspective, this is further validation that quote unquote, I've won.
I started later and I'm doing a billion.
They started earlier.
They're doing 700 million.
Good news.
You've won.
But the bad news that you just can't ignore with a tweet is when real money decided not to buy 2% of this thing in a secondary sale, but to actually write a check for the asset, they said, we're going to multiply by seven, right?
And if you multiply Ramp's billion dollar run rate by seven, you get 7 billion.
Now, they're growing faster than ramp, maybe double it, 15.
What it points to is, we live in this crazy land of VC valuations where they're made once a year, when only one person buys, no one can subsequently sell.