There's an idea in this book where it says Jensen prioritized technical skill and maximum effort above all.

And as I was reading, I noticed a lot of similarities between the way Jensen thought and ran his company

with the way that Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos thought and ran their companies as well.

In fact, from day one in Jeff Bezos's very first shareholder letter, Jeff wrote about the importance and emphasized

the importance of having the very best team. He wrote, setting the bar high and our approach

to hiring has been and will continue to be the single most important element of Amazon's success.

Jeff's focus on talent is very similar to this quote that I found from Steve Jobs in an interview that

Steve gave that very same year in 1997, and this is what Steve Jobs said. He said that I think

I've consistently figured out who the really smart people were to hang around with. You must find

extraordinary people. The key observation is that in most things in life, the dynamic range

between average quality

and the best quality is at most two to one.

But in the field that I was interested in, I noticed that the dynamic range between what an

average person could accomplish and what the best person could accomplish was 50 or 100 to 1,

given that you're well advised to go after the cream of the cream.

He says you want to build a team that pursues the A plus players.

And this is exactly what Ramp did.

Ramp has the most talented technical team in their industry.

Becoming an engineer at Ramp is nearly impossible.

In the last 12 months, they hired

only 0.23% of the people that applied. When you use Ramp, you now have top-tier technical

talent and some of the best AI engineers working on your behalf 24-7 to automate and improve

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