#676 Building A Fintech Unicorn with Eric Glyman

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Eric Glyman is the Founder and CEO of Ramp, the only corporate card and spend management platform designed to help you spend less. He has raised approximately $700M for the company in debt and equity, which helped the business become valued at more than $3 billion. Previously, Eric founded Paribus, the price-tracking app that was acquired by Capital One in 2016. In this conversation, we discuss selecting an idea, testing your assumptions, fundraising, scaling your business, hiring great people, disrupting incumbents, putting stablecoins on the balance sheet, and listening to customers. ======================= Compass Mining is the world's first online marketplace for bitcoin mining hardware and hosting. Compass was founded with the goal of making it easy for everyone to mine bitcoin. Visit compassmining.io to start mining bitcoin today! ======================= My friends at Coin Cloud will give you $50 in FREE Bitcoin when you buy $200 or more at any of their 4,000+ machines. Use promo code POMP to get your free Bitcoin. For details or to find your nearest Coin Cloud machine, visit www.Coin.Cloud/Pomp Coin Cloud has been serving customers since 2014 and has established itself as the world's leading digital currency machine (DCM) operator. More than just a Bitcoin ATM, Coin Cloud machines make it easy to buy and sell Bitcoin and 30+ other digital assets with cash. To get your $50 in free Bitcoin, visit www.Coin.Cloud/Pomp ======================= MiamiCoin is the first token to be released by CityCoins, a community-driven project built on Bitcoin. CityCoins aims to give people around the world a new way to support their favourite cities. The protocol has already generated over $7 million dollars in donations to the city of Miami and continues to grow every day. If you want to get involved Follow @minecitycoins on Twitter to stay up to date with the project. Visit chat.CityCoins.co to join the community discord and contribute to the movement.

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp
0:07.4	podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Now let's kick this thing off. Eric Glyman is the founder and
0:13.5	CEO of Ramp, the only corporate card and spend management platform designed to help you spend less.
0:18.8	He has raised approximately $700 million for the company in debt and equity,
0:22.8	which helped the business become valued at more than $3 billion.
0:26.8	Previously, Eric founded Parabas, the price tracking app that was acquired by Capital One in 2016.
0:33.2	In this conversation, we discussed selecting an idea, testing your assumptions,
0:37.2	fundraising, scaling your assumptions, fundraising,
0:37.9	scaling your business, hiring great people, disrupting incumbents, putting stable coins on your
0:42.4	balance sheet, and listening to customers. I really, really enjoyed this conversation with
0:48.4	Eric, and I hope that you do as well. Before we get into this episode, though, I want to quickly
0:53.0	talk about our sponsors.
1:00.4	First up is Compass Mining. Compass Mining is the world's largest marketplace for mining hardware and hosting. With Compass, everyone can mine Bitcoin. That's right. Their team makes it easy
1:06.1	to start mining wherever you want, at home, or in one of their 23 hosting facilities around the world.
1:12.4	Through the Compass Marketplace, retail miners can have access to mining hardware with similar
1:16.5	prices and purchase plans as the world's largest mining companies.
1:20.9	Compass miners own their machines, choose whatever mining pool they want, and mine directly
1:25.3	to their own wallet.
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1:31.3	well.
1:32.2	Simple and low cost hosting agreements coupled with best in class customer service or the
1:36.7	reason why Compass is the simplest and most popular way to mine Bitcoin.
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