In 2008, when Ramp CEO Eric Glyman was an undergraduate student at Harvard, he spent his days during the academic year studying Economics and Mandarin Chinese and his summers interning at financial firms like Houlihan Lokey—fascinated by the rapid growth of economies abroad and the unique opportunities that existed for someone with the right financial experience and language-speaking background.
“I went back to China every summer; I thought the place was fascinating,” Eric tells me. “And there were a lot of years I thought I was going to spend my whole career out there.” But after reflecting on his experiences, working on financial restructurings in East Asia