Ara Kharazian

@arakharazian

Lead Economist @tryramp. I write and publish data on AI, business spend, and the economy at ramp.com/data. cc: [email protected]. Prev economist @square

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Ara Kharazian
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Jun 30
We can finally say AI isn't killing jobs. A new paper from me, @tryramp, and @RevelioLabs uses firm-level spend and workforce data across 21K U.S. businesses to measure AI's impact on jobs. Firms that adopt AI heavily grow headcount 10% over two years following adoption. Low
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Early Ramp data (this only runs through the weekend), but looks like Fable 5.1, which got rid of the data retention requirements businesses said was a non-starter to adoption, is doing pretty well. Now roughly 22.5% of their enterprise spend and rising. For reference, Sol makes
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Ara Kharazian
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Sep 2
New from Ramp data: the latest threat to the AI trade. AI companies' revenues are heavily dependent on a small set of customers. 80% of OpenAI and Anthropic's enterprise revenues come from 1% of their customers, and it's not getting better. This is a level of concentration risk
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Ara Kharazian
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Sep 1
I’m hiring an economist / economics-leaning data scientist to join Ramp Economics Lab. As AI adoption is approaches 100%, measuring whether businesses use AI is no longer enough. We need new metrics that show how deeply companies are using it, where it creates value, and how AI
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ABOUT RAMP Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and...
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Ara Kharazian
@arakharazian
Aug 31
New from me and @tryramp data: AI startups are only second to consumer brands in influencer spend. also, ad spend in general! increasingly driven by AI companies.
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