Keep pulling the thread on Patrick O'Shaughnessy.
In the last year, Ramp has hired only 0.23% of the people that applied.
The founders of Ramp believe they have built the most talented technical team in their industry.
Matt Paulson, the founder of MarketBeat, stated that Ramp helped him save $420,000 in monthly expenses.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy credits Daniel Ek of Spotify for ideas on building software and Chathan Pudagunta of Benchmark for ideas on selling software, which he successfully applied to his previous business.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy predicts that investor Jesse Beirutti will be recognized as one of the greatest investors of all time.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy's company, Colossus, has launched a media arm focused on writing long-form, in-depth profiles of founders and investors, similar to a magazine.
Colossus hired Jeremy Stern as editor-in-chief for its profile-writing division after Patrick O'Shaughnessy identified Stern's profile of Anduril's Palmer Luckey in Tablet magazine as the best he had read.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy expects the profile and magazine business at Colossus to eventually become much larger than its podcasting business.
Larry Ellison deliberately picked a public fight with Bill Gates and Microsoft to re-position Oracle as a peer to top technology companies like Microsoft and IBM, rather than just other database companies.
Charlie Munger's advice on hiring great CEOs is to 'just find somebody that is a great CEO and say, come do that for us,' rather than hiring for potential.
Walt Disney created Disneyland to be a high-quality alternative to the existing amusement parks of the time, which were viewed as low-quality and 'trashy'.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy launched his first venture fund in the summer of 2020 within one month of being approached by Sam Hinkey to invest in Hinkey's own fund.