When Eric Glyman co-founded Ramp in February 2020, he anticipated the usual challenges of launching a startup—long hours, building a team, and marketing an unfamiliar product. What he didn’t foresee was the chaos of a global pandemic just weeks after the company’s debut. A week into operations, half of Ramp’s New York City employees fell ill. Soon after, corporate spending ground to a halt as businesses shut down due to COVID-19 lockdowns.
“There was never anything like it,” Glyman told Forbes. “If you go back 100 years, as long as there were modern credit records, you'd never
