Something that Michael Ovitz had in common with people like Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos is the belief that you must find and work with extraordinary people.

Even when Ovitz was a young man, he starts his company, he has no money, he makes a list of people that he eventually wanted to work with.

And it was the best of the best.

And even though at the time it felt like a pipe dream, he actually makes that list into a reality.

And the importance of working with the very best people,

there's actually a great observation about this from Steve Jobs.

And he says that the key observation was that I noticed

that that dynamic range between what an average person could accomplish

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

So given that, you're well advised to build a team that pursues the A plus players. That's exactly what Steve Jobs did. It's exactly what Michael

Overt's did. And it 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. So that means when your business is using Ramp,

you now have access to top tier technical talent and some of the best AI engineers on the planet

working on your behalf 24-7 to automate and improve all of your businesses' financial operations.

Ramp invests heavily in creating new innovative products. In fact, I just sat down with the founder

and a friend of mine who's one of the co-founders and the CEO of Ramp named Eric, and he told me

that 54% of their payroll is now dedicated to R&D.

So the longer they use Ramp, the more efficient your company becomes.

That's very important because as Sam Walton astutely pointed out in his autobiography, he wrote,

you can make a lot of different mistakes to still recover if you run an efficient operation,

or you can be brilliant and go out of business if you're too inefficient.

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