I built a billion dollar company in 18 months

Can you build a billion dollar company in only eighteen months? Today's guest, his name is Eric Lyman. He's a buddy of mine who started a company called Ramp. And him and his co founder, they asked themselves this question before they started the company. They wanted to get to a billion dollar valuation in only eighteen months, and they reverse engineered it. And I'd heard him tell this story before, but he didn't really like give a lot of details on it. And I thought it was amazing, uh, the fact that they were this bold and then they actually pulled it off. So the company is worth something like twenty billion dollars now, and they're only, I think, six years old. And so Give this episode a listen. Let me know what you think. Again, Eric Lyman of Ramp is on today's episode of My First Million. I feel like I could rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like my day song. On the road less travel, never looked at the case.

That was like pretty crazy. It was I wanna get I wanna build a billion dollar company in eighteen months. In eighteen months, yeah. And that was Kind of shocking because that's like cra I mean, that's crazy fast. Is that really what happened? You guys had that conversation? Yeah, that's a real conversation. That you guys didn't have you and Kareem were you on the same page? We we want to go fast for sure.

You know, I think like the world is moving faster than ever. We had already sold our first company. And we were definitely like neither of us came for a whole lot. We were comfortable and you know, I think even at the time had already proven a a couple of things out and you know, in some sense had left. Like I was I was a twenty six year old you know, senior director of Capital One. I think it's like the youngest person at that that age. Like we left very good setups. Um

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