• Working with friends


• Small core team (<10 people)


• Remote-first


• Asynchronous communication


• Very few meetings


• No managers or PMs


• Transparent decision-making


• Profit-sharing among the team


• Annual liquidity windows for equity


• No institutional investors


• No required work hours; everyone is responsible for their own tasks


• Focus on creating high-quality produc

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The Silicon Valley small business, the SV-SB, is a hybrid of sorts — it intertwines small business values and discipline with big tech know-how and ambition.

• Founding teams may look like that of a “traditional” Silicon Valley startup. They’re native to Silicon Valley ethos, skills, and playbooks. But , beneath the surface, they’re different. You m

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Finance is the nervous system of the company. Everything that a business does flows through finance in some way, and no department has a better bird’s-eye view into how the company operates.

The data that the finance team has is extremely valuable for AI. The data generated by financial transactions - what companies are buying, how much they're spe... See more

75 percent [of our] acquisitions come from approaching celebrities, politicians, athletes, the “celebrity adjacent,” etc. That way, we can control the content…. We are approaching authors and celebrities and politicians and athletes for ideas. So it’s really we are on the look out. We are scouts in a lot of ways…

There’s a reason why the most popular words in tech right now are acceleration, destruction, disruption.

Have you figured out what they want to destroy and disrupt? Here’s a clue—take a look in the mirror.

most businesses don’t last forever, and they don’t need to.

Bad markets are the reason many great products and teams never find PMF. A declining or non-existent market will kill you no matter how good your execution is.

Ramp keeps finding itself in the right place at the right time because the company is built to be in the right place at the right time, executing against a mission that will never go out of style with a structure and team that allows it to take advantage of new ways to fulfill it.