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Ian Macomber reposted thisIan Macomber reposted thisNEW: AI Spend FALLS in the latest Ramp AI Index. Token usage continues to rise, but price cuts at the frontier, in addition to cheaper and more efficient models at standard and lite levels, are pushing down the cost of using AI. Open source models remain <5% of business spend. This decline in spend is driven almost exclusively by competition between the American AI labs OpenAI + Anthropic. Source: ramp.com/data/ai-index
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Ian Macomber reposted thisIan Macomber reposted thisI’m looking for someone to lead Procurement Data Science at Ramp. This role gives you the opportunity to build the area from the ground up. I’m looking for someone who’s deeply passionate about measurement and business strategy, someone who naturally sweats the details on measurement. You’ll have a lot of ownership and a chance to shape how Data Science partners with Product, Engineering and Design to build the shape the best procurement product on the market. This is a high value role where you'll get the opportunity to work with a rock star team: Ian Macomber Sam Packard Ryne Carbone Ryan Hauldren Leila Steingold Reach out if you’re interested or know someone who could be a great fit: https://lnkd.in/grtVYDYV
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Ian Macomber shared thisThis Thursday I'm joining a few friends from MotherDuck, Hex, and Clay to discuss building agentic products, data platforms, and data teams in the post-AI era. https://lnkd.in/gHgQf-w9 Register here! (Oct 1, 6:15p NYC)Agentic Analytics In Production: What's Working, What's Not · LumaAgentic Analytics In Production: What's Working, What's Not · Luma
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Ian Macomber shared thisWhat it feels to like to build at Ramp / with Geoff https://lnkd.in/gtGDwcJ6 Come join us! We're hiring.What product looks like when coding is solved | Geoff Charles (Ramp CPO)What product looks like when coding is solved | Geoff Charles (Ramp CPO)
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Ian Macomber shared thisNew Ramp economist alert! Cara (. published her first piece: Who is buying & selling AI Compute? As you might expect: everything is up and to the right. But some fascinating breakdowns across foundation labs, horizontal AI, and vertical AI. https://lnkd.in/ghdE5MXV
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Ian Macomber shared thisRamp Customers Akon Jeezy Lil Wayne 🤝 I'm so paidIan Macomber shared thisRamp helps you spend less. Now, we’re helping you get paid faster. Today we’re launching Ramp Accounts Receivable! It’s been our #1 customer request. We built it with customers, and over 100 businesses have already sent invoices. The early reactions are extraordinary. Winning the business is hard enough. Finance shouldn’t then have to piece together contracts, chase payments across email threads, and figure out which invoice a deposit belongs to. Ramp turns contracts into invoice drafts, prepares payment follow-ups for your team to review and send, and automatically matches incoming payments to invoices. Your accounting records stay in sync. Ian Mackey of Scicomm Media had this to say: “Ramp AR just works. No manual reconciliation, and every invoice status is accurate.” The goal hasn’t changed: help businesses get more from every dollar and hour. That includes spending less time collecting money you’ve already earned. I think you’re going to love it. Full detail on the product is here: https://lnkd.in/gwaDzZcN and launch blog post here: https://lnkd.in/gJ7N-pPu
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Ian Macomber shared thisAra has great dataIan Macomber shared thisNEW from Ramp data. Despite cost-cutting on AI overall, one area companies are increasing their spend: AI security software. In the wake of the Hugging Face hack, three of our trending software vendors (depthfirst, Monte Carlo, Antithesis) make software specifically designed to monitor agents in production, catching bugs and vulnerabilities before they spiral. Unclear as to whether any of them would have stopped the Hugging Face attack,which was so hard to track and identify because the agents covered their tracks with falsified logs. I anticipate AI security will become a strong headwind to deeper enterprise adoption, at the short-term expense of OpenAI and Anthropic and at the long-term benefit of vertical-specific security software cos. My latest writeup today: https://lnkd.in/gWgJAWEV
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Ian Macomber shared thisLast month I wrote about data stacks in the Post-AI era. This isn't hypothetical, it's what working at Ramp feels like today. 4.5 years ago I joined a corporate card company where data meant writing SQL and clicking through a BI tool's web UI to visualize card swipes. Today, Ramp is a finance intelligence platform building a router, data layer, tools, and agentic product experiences to help companies understand their ROI on token spend, AI tool vendors, and every other signal we can use to help them save time and money. We are meeting every business in the entire world wherever they are on their AI journey, and truly, the energy feels more like we're just getting started than it did 4.5 years ago. I'm looking for data teammates to build the next stage of Ramp with me. There's a lot that AI + "software factory" can solve for you, and we do that better than anyone. I'm not just looking for people who claude code within their own domain and can debug an agent trace, but people who are convincing enough to get hundreds of people to change what they prioritize. I'm looking for ML systems thinkers with strong product opinions who both can both deeply feel and explain customer pain. People with the judgement to build complex systems, combined with bulldozer grade resourcefulness, AI-pilled velocity, who care a lot. Plus you'll get to work with Ryan Stevens Bethan Nichols Drew Pinta Ricky Meyers Ara Kharazian ZiZi Zhang Ian Tracey Veeral Patel Hamid Dadkhah Geoff Charles Diego Zaks 💳 Rahul Sengottuvelu Karim Atiyeh! If this sounds like you, I'd love to meet. If you're in NYC, would love to grab coffee.
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Ian Macomber reposted thisIan Macomber reposted thisIn August I announced Prompt — Hex's one-day gathering on how data and AI are changing, and how we all need to change with it. Today I'm excited to share who's joining us on stage! We'll have Ian Macomber of Ramp, Nikita Shamgunov of Databricks, and Andy Cotgreave — along with many other leaders from Chime, Ro, LangChain, Whatnot, Lyft, and more, alongside the Hex team. It's going to be fun, magical, and hopefully quite interesting! Still by application only, get on the list here → prompt@hex.tech
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Ian Macomber liked thisIan Macomber liked thisRecently, I discovered a box of baseball cards in my basement from 1997 that time and poor upkeep had turned into a legit brick of melded wood pulp, and it sent me down a very unexpected and strange rabbit hole. I'd haphazardly come across a handful of interesting startups building in and around the collectibles and TCG space (digital repacks, vaults, marketplaces), but hadn't dedicated much time to understand how dramatically the industry had changed (and grown), and why. I'd sold my last remaining Pokémon cards for money to see Malibu's Most Wanted in 2003 and abandoned the hobby, or so I'd thought. Over the past few months I've opened multiple 2026 NFL hobby boxes, ordered two Topps Update Series Baseball hobby boxes, attempted to order a case of Heritage football hobby boxes only to discover they were sold out within 10 seconds of pre-order release, and sent multiple cards in for grading and slabbing. All in the pursuit of figuring out wtf was happening in the industry, so I could find a way to invest or incubate a company in the space. All roads led me to the apex predator of the industry - Collectors. A love letter to that company / short collection of my ramblings and reactions from that journey below for any current or recovering collectors who are interested. https://lnkd.in/gGgQez6M s/o to my colleague Maria Heyen for enabling my dormant addiction.
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Ian Macomber liked thisIan Macomber liked thisGeoff Charles (CPO of RampRamp): I see 3 paths for product managers long-term: 1. The technical PM 2. The tastemaker PM 3. The GM Clip from his full talk below: https://lnkd.in/geUrdABB
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Ian Macomber liked thisIan Macomber liked thisThe day after a conference is usually when the momentum dies. You fly home, the notes sit there, and everything gets pushed to next quarter. We’re hosting our first conference this year and want to do things different. On Oct 28, the day after Prompt, were opening up the Hex office in SF for Customer Day. Come hang out with us and put what you learned to work while its still fresh: → Build a new workflow with the support of our team → Co-work alongside our own data team → Meet other customers working on the same challenges as you → Film a quick video with us! If you're coming to Prompt, stick around one more day. I’d love to meet you! Request a spot by Oct 9: https://lnkd.in/eVeZqD-u
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Ian Macomber liked thisIan Macomber liked thisThe African wildcat’s out of the bag. I’ve joined Serval as their Head of Social Media. This company is outa control. They have one of the fastest growing products in the game right now. So when I was given the opportunity to build their social and creative marketing muscle from 0-1, all I could muster was a “hell yeah.” At Ramp, our IT team became automation engineers by building Serval automations across 10 teams that now auto-resolve 50% of tickets like magic. The product is transforming enterprise and the talent behind it is bananas. Their vision drew me in because similarly to Ramp, they’re using AI to kill busywork and empower creative work. And going toe-to-toe with a monopolistic dinosaur software is fun too (I don’t wanna name names, but it starts with “Service” and it ends now 👼) I’m so stoked to help bring this brand to life with Alana O'Grady Lauk, and so grateful to Jake Stauch, Alex McLeod, Tatiana Birgisson, and the rest of the team for welcoming me aboard. Also, WE’RE HIRING ACROSS CREATIVE ROLES! serval.com/careers I’m personally on the hunt for: 👁️ An extremely online Social Media Lead to build our launch motions, community management, and meme our way to Valhalla 👄 A zeitgeisty Influencer Lead to flesh out the Serval Cinematic Universe 👁️ A Brand Designer to make us the most talked about brand in Design Twitter 👄 A serval cat conservationist, preferably Robert Irwin, or someone Robert Irwin esque If you know any absolute killers, my DMs are open. We already have a ton of cool stuff cooking. Can’t wait to start showing up in your feeds. But for now, I leave you with Jeff Goldblum.
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Ian Macomber liked thisIan Macomber liked thisNEW: AI Spend FALLS in the latest Ramp AI Index. Token usage continues to rise, but price cuts at the frontier, in addition to cheaper and more efficient models at standard and lite levels, are pushing down the cost of using AI. Open source models remain <5% of business spend. This decline in spend is driven almost exclusively by competition between the American AI labs OpenAI + Anthropic. Source: ramp.com/data/ai-index
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