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Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:41 Harry Stebbings Parker? 2 times in the scene
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:13 Jason Lemkin Um, as Parker said to be not bad for a SAS company. 3 times in the scene
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:52 Miles Clements And I think nobody in the world does that better, uh, than Parker Conrad. 6 times in the scene
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:06 Winston Weinberg Like we very much like in Parker Conrad's voice, like built a compound startup, like very much.
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 6:32 Harry Stebbings I totally, it's funny, I spoke to Parker before from, obviously, Rippling, and I remember being in SF when I was like, 18, 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:32 Max Altman Parker's amazing, and I would never bet against him, so we still hold a bunch of it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:01 Harry Stebbings Like he would with me or Parker. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:48 Harry Stebbings So, like, Parker's amazing, but very much in the mainstream.
Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:21 Everett Randle And obviously you miss Parker's excellence. 4 times in the scene
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:30:57 Jason Calacanis And why, and we, and you can bring Parker on and we can say, Hey, were you slow to do some of this?
Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:32:18 Jason Lemkin So it's hard for me to believe, I mean, Parker's an incredible CEO, but it's hard for me to believe they would IPO in anything less than 24 months because they're doubling down on, on investing, right? 2 times in the scene
How Do All Providers Deal with Anthropic Dependency Risk & Figma IPO Breakdown: Where Does it Price? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:17 Jason Lemkin Um, and you're right, and listen, uh, I wish I'd invest, I'd wish I had invested in Rippling, and it would, and, and, and I, I did know Parker then, and, um, I would have done it at 35, because if you know somebody, or there's a reason, of…
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:20 Jason Lemkin For every Parker Conrad that wants to do it again at a much better deal, other founders don't get it, right?
Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:33 Jason Lemkin You go back to work and you say, Parker, you do what, you do what Elon and, and, um, you do what Sam's doing with Elon. 3 times in the scene
20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:50 Harry Stebbings So that's where me and Parker Conrad constantly have a debate on Twitter, because he's always like, Harry's selling his own book when he says don't raise the crazy rounds, um, and I, I don't think I am, because I see the truth, Imad, which… 3 times in the scene
20VC: Four Traits of the Most Successful Founders | How to Hunt and Close Talent Like a Pro and Where All Founders Go Wrong | Lessons Raising $397M From the Best Investors in the World with Eléonore Crespo @ Pigment
- ▶ 41:26 Harry Stebbings You see people like Parker Conrad, who we've had on the show multiple times.
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:28:52 Jason Lemkin At first it went out, and when Parker's first tweets went out, right, I remember someone asking me, it can't be this bad, can it? 2 times in the scene
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:15 Harry Stebbings And to be fair, Parker is, and was amazing. 3 times in the scene
Matt Plank, Rippling's CRO: How to Build an Enterprise Sales Machine | E1241 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings I've heard so many good things, both from Ashley and from Parker.
- ▶ 11:23 Matt Plank To a meeting with Parker and I'm like, Hey, we're going to massively with revenue this month, but like, it's all marketing's fault.
- ▶ 12:45 Matt Plank Usually something that Parker is like, Hey, like if we want to continue to be in the top 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:08 Matt Plank As Parker would say, did it push or did it poof?
- ▶ 42:36 Matt Plank It's like Parker told me once a long time ago, I think something that really stuck with me.
- ▶ 48:47 Matt Plank I'm thinking about Parker would probably say everything, uh, but, but I think probably like international, to be honest, like an international, we have, we're, you know, we have teams now go to market teams in Dublin selling into, you…
- ▶ 55:00 Harry Stebbings And, you know, you were with Parker from like basements. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:42 Matt Plank Like, uh, when Parker started rippling, like who's the first person he wanted to hire? 3 times in the scene
Karri Saarinen: How to Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth | E1221 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:43 Karri Saarinen And I don't think, I saw this interview from Parker Conrad, and I think like he, he said that the only real protection you can have as a startup founder in your business is, is to be successful. 2 times in the scene
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:20 Mamoon Hamid I would put Parker from Rippling in that bucket. 2 times in the scene
Akshay Kothari: How Notion Has More Money Than Ever & Why Startup Fundraising is Broken | E1203 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:02 Akshay Kothari I think the best way I've seen more recently is, uh, Parker at Rippling sort of calls it a compound company, which is that it is this, like, big mission that we're, we're building many different products, and they all connect through the…
Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:51 Alexis Ohanian With, with Rippling, those votes come back, strong yes, for the love of God, win this deal, because we knew Parker, this was his second act, basically doing the same business, that's just make sure you win the deal.
Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:04 Delian Asparouhov And especially if in that, you know, sort of thousand and you are fortunate enough to have a data set of founders that look like Parker Conrad, Eric Kleinman, Alex Wang, et cetera.
- ▶ 40:58 Delian Asparouhov Obviously we're seeing this kind of play out in the drama sphere of Twitter over the past 24, 48 hours with Parker Conrad, Vinod, Mike Solana, David Sachs, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:50 Harry Stebbings We mentioned Parker earlier when Gary Tannen initialized did ramp was an expensive ish seed round. 2 times in the scene
Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:55 Harry Stebbings Parker Conrad at Ripley and I always have beef on Twitter because he's like, no, it's bullshit, Harry. 3 times in the scene
Janie Lee: Three Core Skills that Make the Best PMs | E1165 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Ashley Kelly: The Playbook to Start and Scale Your SDR Team | E1162 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:46 Ashley Kelly Trust me, Parker, my CEO says the exact same thing to me.
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:00 Jason Lemkin I will say, you know, it is interesting, I will say, and I wish I was an investor, I will say the best founder meeting I probably had was with Parker Conrad in the beginning of Zenefits. 4 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:02 Jason Lemkin And, um, there's the Parker Conrad's that solved this problem on day zero, right?
- ▶ 1:03:35 Jason Lemkin It was like here, Parker, here's why it was, you know, decent in the early days and it's really high, but you know, if they're coming up on four hundred million and there's a very specific reason why and there's a plan
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:13 Harry Stebbings Parker Rippling is a different story.
Keith Rabois & Eric Glyman: The Tools, Tips, Secrets and Process That Drive Efficiency | E1148 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:43 Keith Rabois Um, you know, Parker was nice enough to tweet our episode afterwards.
Sam Blond: Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It | E1139 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Ryan Akkina: How MIT Builds Their Venture Fund Portfolio & How MIT Approach Direct Investing | E1109 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:39 Ryan Akkina Uh, we had several other people we know who had a really high opinion of, uh, of Parker.
Adam Fisher: Why Small Markets are Better Than Big Markets | E1106 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:39 Harry Stebbings Parker Conrad at Rippling, a very famous founder in the Valley, always goes, that's a VC-ism.
Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:05 Keith Rabois So Rickling came in, Parker came in, um, and we gave a term sheet. 3 times in the scene
Ed Sim & Jamin Ball: Did Figma Kill M&A Markets & 3 Requirements to IPO in 2024 | E1101 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:13 Jason Lemkin I remember meeting Parker Conrad early at the Zenefits day, and I bumped into Mamoun like the next week. 2 times in the scene
Ryan Petersen: Why Velocity not Speed is Most Important in Company Building | E1081 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:46 Harry Stebbings And I have this fight with Parker Conrad always online. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:56 Harry Stebbings Enter Parker Conrad. 4 times in the scene
Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:01 Jack Altman I mean, like, um, Parker from Rippling's really good.
Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:27 Harry Stebbings And me and Parker Conrad, not a good person to pick a fight with, by the way, note, uh, but me and Parker Conrad thoroughly disagree. 4 times in the scene
Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:44 unnamed speaker And Parker Conrad from Rippling, who I know and has, you know, been a guest on the show many times. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:04 Christian Lanng And I think the very best operators, like you mentioned, Parker Conrad and people like that, they are so insane at the iteration speed, and that's why they win.
DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:54 Sam Lessin Which is like, I like Parker, and like I'm super psyched for him that he's like pulled off what he's pulled off, but like that's not a game that I feel particularly excited about playing repeatedly.
Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:26 Sarah Guo Saji and Parker are, like, really special people. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:32 Harry Stebbings I had Parker on, and he was, uh, not reserved in terms of the exit from Zenefits, so don't worry, that was a very graceful, uh, departure.
Alex Bouaziz: How We Became a $12B HR Company with 2,000 Remote Employees | 20VC #973 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:45 Harry Stebbings I have Parker Conrad on the show
Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:38 Harry Stebbings Many people have said on the show about, actually, Parker Conrad at Rippling that vengeance is what makes him special.
Geoff Lewis: Why I Put $200M into Rippling; Uncapped Notes; "Compound Startups" | 20VC #933 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings Parker is amazing. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:02 Harry Stebbings So I want to start with Parker because obviously with bedrock, you focus a lot of your messing around narrative violations and in the memo you put Parker was narrative violation. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:41 Geoff Lewis In March of twenty-twenty-two, Parker and the company articulated a very specific and detailed product roadmap around how they can really become, through their employee graph, over time, I don't think he would phrase it this way, but I'm… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:13 Geoff Lewis Parker likes it so we can use it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:27 Geoff Lewis This team, Parker and his team at Rippling, are masters of raising capital.
- ▶ 26:22 Geoff Lewis We called Parker up. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:05 Geoff Lewis And one of the things I love about Parker is 5 times in the scene
20VC: The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make Hiring, The 2 Reasons Startups Fail and How to Avoid Them, Why Most Startup Equity Plans are F****** and Why You Should Scrap Titles From Your Company with Eddie Vivas, Founder & CEO @ Curated
- ▶ 11:33 Harry Stebbings Would you say you're building a, what Parker Conrad says, a compound startup, one.
20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse
- ▶ 29:02 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, you know, this was such a seminal piece, and actually Parker Conrad at Rippling messaged me last night saying, hey, I loved it.
20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity
- ▶ 5:54 Jon Dishotsky Parker from Zenefits, and along the way, I really just sort of saw them be able to grow these companies from zero to these amazing things, and I knew I wanted to do that, but I didn't know what my thing was going to be.
20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on Why Unemployment Is An Optimisation Problem That Will Be Solved Over The Next 20 Years, Why The Speed and Quality of Decisions Are Not Mutually Exclusive & The 1 Question All Founders Must Ask Themselves Befor
- ▶ 15:30 unnamed speaker I think about Parker Conrad, when he was raising for his company, they started before Zenefits. 2 times in the scene
20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- ▶ 27:46 Daniel Gross Ah, so my, my most recently announced investment is a company called Rippling, which was started by the CEO of Zenefits, Parker Conrad, and he's building a product that I really always wanted.
20VC: YC's Justin Kan on The 3 Qualities All Successful Investors Have & Why 'VCs Don't Really Do Any Real Work'?
- ▶ 20:28 Justin Kan Uh, well, I mean, I think Parker Conrad comes to mind.