Comment by echelon

15 days ago

If Ramp is getting all the business, is there any reason to think they wouldn't command a much higher valuation?

Brex killed a ton of their customer relationships to "refocus" on larger biz. That created a lot of negative sentiment for the brand.

> All Ramp did was spend more on ads and marketing

That's distribution. It matters.

Ramp has a much more synonymous name, better recognition, and less bad reputation.

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another_twist  15 days ago

Distribution is king. Kudos to Ramp for that. My weird thesis is that for whatever reason Ruby on Rails shops just seem to survive more. I wonder if someone did a stack specific survival rate analysis.

  • okhobb  15 days ago

    Pretty sure Ramp uses Elixir.

    • srpablo  9 days ago

      Ramp is mostly their Python monolith. They have a blog post about their use of Elixir for one service but it's really not their core stack.

      Brex was a lot more all-in on Elixir, including being one of the languages "stars," but moved to a more conventional stack (IIRC Java/Drop wizard microservices with Kafka to talk between them).

    • krrishd  14 days ago

      Ramp is (mostly) a Flask monolith with some sprinkles of Elixir at the very edges where sub-second performance matters.