Tearsheet Podcast: The Business Of Finance

I recently sat down with Geoff Charles, Chief Product Officer at Ramp, to discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of corporate finance technology. Recently promoted to CPO, Geoff has been with Ramp since its early days when the company was just 10 people. His journey from product manager to C-suite exemplifies Ramp’s growth trajectory as a company now hiring hundreds of employees annually. The Big Ideas AI as a Financial Co-Pilot: “The average employee doesn’t have a degree in finance… our models are more accurate than the average employee,” Charles explains, highlighting how AI can democratize financial expertise. Unified Financial Operations: “Why is it that you see receipts for expenses in one product and accounts payable in another? Makes no sense,” says Charles about the fragmented finance software landscape Ramp aims to consolidate. Selective Automation: Charles emphasizes their approach to automating what makes sense: “Where there’s high criticality and where humans are very good at it… we need to be