99% of Ramp uses ai daily. but we noticed most people were stuck — not because the models weren't good enough, but because the setup was too painful and unintuitive for most. terminal configs, mcp servers, everyone figuring it out alone.
so we built Glass. every employee gets a fully configured ai workspace on day one — integrations connected via sso, a marketplace of 350+ reusable skills built by colleagues, persistent memory, scheduled automations. when one person on a team figures out a better workflow, everyone on that team gets it and gets more productive.
the companies that make every employee effective with ai will compound advantages their competitors can't match. most are waiting for vendors to solve this. we decided to own it.
William on how an early stage employee takes way more risk than a founder:
"If I'm making $400-500K at Google or Meta and go to an early stage company to get 1% of this company and make $90,000. I've now changed the trajectory of my life, that's a lot of risk.
But as a founder, you're not. It's a much higher likelihood that of the next round, regardless of your company, you'll be able to sell some secondary. If it shuts down, you can get employed at a great company, and you have a CEO on your resume.
That first employee, they have first employee at a failed company. That's actually not a great resume line item.
So we've de-risked the founder, but we haven't de-risked the early stage employee."
NY is about to cost founders a million dollars…and the state even more
NJ changed its QSBS rules recently and recognizes QSBS.
Why in the world is NY going to push founders to move to New Jersey?
Haven’t we learned that we compete with other states?
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