#396 The Obsession of Enzo Ferrari

It was often said that the greatest skill that Enzo Ferrari had was his ability to recognize talent. He spent his entire career working with the very best people he could. Enzo Ferrari knew, just like Steve Jobs knew, just like Jeff Bezos knew that you always bet on talent. In fact, Steve Jobs had this great quote where he says, a small team of a plus players can run circles around a giant team of b and c players. Enzo Ferrari built the best cars in the world in a small workshop with a small team of a players. Jeff Bezos believed in working with the most talented people. In fact, Jeff said, setting the bar high in our approach to hiring has been and will continue to be the single most important element of Amazon's success. You must build a team that pursues the a players. That is exactly what Enzo Ferrari did, and it is exactly what Ramp did. Ramp is the presenting sponsor of this podcast, and Ramp has the most talented technical team in their industry. Becoming an engineer at Ramp is nearly impossible. In the last twelve months, Ramp has hired only point two three percent of the people that have applied. This means when you use Ramp, you now have top tier technical talent and some of the best AI engineers working on your behalf twenty four seven to automate and improve all of your business's financial operations, and they do this on a single platform. Ramp gives your business easy to use corporate cards for your entire team, automated expense reporting, and cost control. The longer you use Ramp, the more efficient your company becomes. Many of the fastest growing and most innovative companies in the world are running their business on Ramp. Notion is an example of that. The CFO of Notion said this, people ask how we're using AI and finance, and I have a simple answer for them. We use Ramp. I run my business on Ramp, so do most of the other top founders and CEOs I know. I hear from people that listen to this podcast every day that have switched to Ramp and rave about the quality of the product. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud by going to ramp.com to learn how they can help your business today. That is ramp.com. There's another tool and technology I wanna tell you about, and Ramp actually uses this tool too. It is called Vanta. I told you how Ramp has the best technical talent in their industry, and now becoming an engineer at Ramp is nearly impossible. Knowing that the team at Ramp trusts Vanta was a huge positive signal for me, and when I talked to Vanta's founder, Christina, it became obvious why Ramp uses Vanta. Vanta helps your company prove that you are secure so more customers will use your product or service. You can think of it like an intelligent security assistant that helps your …