Eric Glyman
Guest on My First Million
Eric Glyman is the co-founder and CEO of Ramp, a finance automation platform and corporate card company that has become one of the fastest-growing startups in the U.S. He previously co-founded Paribus, an AI-powered price-tracking tool that was acquired by Capital One, where he served as a senior director. He is known for scaling Ramp to billions in valuation and revenue within just a few years.
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Becoming Steve Jobs👍 Recommends
…discussing steve jobs biographies and what makes good character studies
“It, so the central question of it was exam examining like who he was over the course of his life. And so effectively these were journalists, people who covered him for like 40 years and knew him from when he was like the 20 year old kind of wonder can to, you know, kind of like end of his life. It came out around the time, I think a few months after the Isaacson. And I think that they felt similarly that so much of he was portrayed out was, was like this brilliant trick. And instead we're trying to focus on like, how did he change over the course of his life?”
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Insanely Great👍 Recommends
…recommending lesser-known but wonderful book about steve jobs
“There's other great, um, great ones too on other aspects. Like I love insanely simple. Um, I love, uh, um, insanely great Steve Levy. That's like a lesser read, but wonderful book.”
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Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success👍 Recommends
…recommending favorite books about steve jobs and design philosophy
“There's other great, um, great ones too on other aspects. Like I love insanely simple. Um, I love, uh, um, insanely great Steve Levy. That's like a lesser read, but wonderful book. Just about just like 15 of them.”
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Meditations👍 Recommends
…discussing books that influenced emotional regulation and stoic philosophy
“You read different books too. I mean, it's now a little more, more trite, but like, it was funny. I like Ryan Holiday stuff when he wrote kind of trust me, I'm lying. But then you got very into stoic kind of philosophy to read like meditations and stuff like that.”
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Steve Jobs👍 Recommends
…discussing favorite biographies and steve jobs biography by walter isaacson
“I mean, my, you know, it's, uh, I think I probably read, you know, 15 biographies of, of Steve jobs. You know, it's, uh, uh, I, I think as, as great as people think he is, I think he's still underrated, um, for what he was able to do and how consistently he was able to, to do it.”
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Trust Me, I'm Lying👍 Recommends
…discussing books by ryan holiday that influenced his thinking
“You read different books too. I mean, it's now a little more, more trite, but like, it was funny. I like Ryan Holiday stuff when he wrote kind of trust me, I'm lying. But then you got very into stoic kind of philosophy to read like meditations and stuff like that.”
on My First Million