Max Beauroyre

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.

Write out your reasoning. Like Bezos, Huang reasons with writing, not spreadsheets. While he trusts his intuition to guide him toward a potential decision, to reach confidence, he or his team must reason through it. Spreadsheets are ill-equipped for the kind of thinking Huang values here. “I hate spreadsheets because you can make spreadsheets do... See more

Han proposes contemplation outside of capitalism, because contemplation in the service of productivity is a form of auto-exploitation that defeats its purpose.

To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal— to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.

1. Negotiate over email as long as possible. Recruiters are essentially professional comp negotiators—they literally do this all day, every day. In a given day or week, your typical recruiter will negotiate more job offers than any non-recruiter individual might negotiate in their entire career. So stay in email and off the phone as long as you can.

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Working even a good job cramps your sense of possibility, imposes narrow objectives, and eats away at the little things that could grow into big things if they weren’t so oppressed by the rigors of existing structure. I’ve seen this with my friends, in how they are full of ideas and adventurous spirit a few months after I convince them to quit... See more

Whenever we drop below a certain level of talking, friction accumulates. We get more stuck in our ways, we get stressed and don’t have time to maintain the shared context necessary to understand each other. But this has, so far, been possible to revert, and easy. Having talked an ungodly amount early on, there are reserves of shared language and... See more

More recently I’ve kept repeating to myself, don’t abandon your vision . Decisiveness is knowing myself well enough to take the plunge, then the rest is all faith.