Moving Fast by Moving Slow: How We Built Payments at Ramp — Ramp Engineering
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A deep dive into why investing in scalability, reliability, and extensibility from Day 1 embodied our mantra of velocity at all costs.
July 17, 2023 At Ramp, we’re very publicly proud of the fact that we live and breathe by the phrase “product velocity.” In fact, in a recent interview, our head of product Geoff even went as far as to say that “our culture is velocity” (emphasis mine). But the funny thing about velocity is that humans are hardwired to take a very local view of it; in other words, it’s easy to assume from the outside that what velocity means to us as an organization is simply striving to ship each and every feature as fast as we possibly can. So today, I want to share a story about a time that we…
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