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Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:42 Ryan Petersen Parker, Zenefits, A-sixteen Z, they fired him.
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
- ▶ 6:39 Harry Stebbings And Xenefits was just like the hottest thing in the world. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:55 Max Altman I think Lux Srini, who was the CTO at Zenefits, went on to build Zero Down.
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:29:59 Jason Calacanis Rippling was, uh, Zen payroll and Zenefits done better, and a problem that every US startup and company has, but there's, there's already point solutions there, right? 2 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
- ▶ 41:29 Harry Stebbings Bluntly, his removal from Zenefits was very public, and he now very much favors a founder-controlled-led company.
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:56 Jake Saper And he goes, Zenefits. 4 times in the scene
Matt Plank, Rippling's CRO: How to Build an Enterprise Sales Machine | E1241 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:57 Matt Plank At Zenefits and I started there as the, you know, 25th and plaza account executive.
Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:51 Alexis Ohanian Oh, Zenefits. 2 times in the scene
Ashley Kelly: The Playbook to Start and Scale Your SDR Team | E1162 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12 Ashley Kelly I started as an SDR at Zenefits. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:42 Harry Stebbings It'd be really helpful if Ashley had known that going into the first Zenifits SDR role.
- ▶ 12:59 Ashley Kelly Yeah, I'd say Zenefits was the big one with the, we did about 250 and then now, uh, rippling obviously with, uh, about three 5200 of those have been just within the last year.
- ▶ 31:13 Ashley Kelly Um, when, uh, we were, when I was at Senate fits, I was a new manager.
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.
Sam Blond: Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It | E1139 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:01 Sam Blond Uh, now, like, I was able to perform within those businesses, and, you know, for context, we're talking about Echosign, Zenefits, and then Brex on the sales side.
- ▶ 5:36 Sam Blond At Zenefits and Brex, so much of the success of a really early stage company is predicated on, um, the, the founder, founder or founders, and their ambitions and aptitude to building a big business. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:10 Sam Blond Um, but what happens seemingly universally, even at the best companies in the world, like Zenefits in 2014, is there are outlier performers
- ▶ 10:28 Sam Blond When I joined Zenefits, there were two successful sales reps.
- ▶ 16:32 Sam Blond Electronic signature, all-in-one, HR, Zinnovitz was a health insurance broker that had HR software, and Brex was credit cards, FinTech, bank account.
- ▶ 35:34 Sam Blond Did some consulting between Zenefits and Brex.
- ▶ 1:13:54 Sam Blond Same thing was true at Zenefits.
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
- ▶ 52:04 Ryan Petersen I think Parker was wrongly scapegoated and run out of town at benefits. 2 times in the scene
Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:39 Mike Maples The only one he could name was Zenefits, and they broke the law.
20VC: What are the World's Tech Leaders Running From? Fear? Insecurity? Poverty? What Drives the Best with Orlando Bravo, Bill Ackman, Dara Khosrowshahi, Parker Conrad, Tobi Luttke, Brian Armstrong and more..
- ▶ 10:06 Parker Conrad There was definitely a moment after I was forced out of Zenefits when there were a whole bunch of reasons like legally and different restrictions I was under that's prevented me from really talking about what happened. 2 times in the scene
Sarah Guo: On Her New $101M Fund; How AI Impacts Inequality; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1007 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 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.
Geoff Lewis: Why I Put $200M into Rippling; Uncapped Notes; "Compound Startups" | 20VC #933 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:35 Geoff Lewis And the firm I worked for ultimately ended up investing in Zenefits later on, so I think I maybe misspoke. 4 times in the scene
Parker Conrad: How I Got Ousted from Zenefits and Came Back with a Vengence | 20VC #932 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:32 Parker Conrad So I started Rippling really, um, as, uh, I guess sort of a round two after, after my last company, um, you know, that, that ended in, in, in a lot of ways that were, you know, sort of, uh, unpleasant for me, but also,
- ▶ 2:00 Parker Conrad You know, there was definitely a moment, you know, when, um, you know, after I was forced out as benefits, um, when, uh, you know, there were a whole bunch of reasons like legally and different restrictions I was under that sort of present…
- ▶ 5:14 Parker Conrad I think that, um, you know, uh, some of it was that, you know, when, when I left, you know, and some, some of this is, I think as a founder, um, you know, it's really hard to watch someone else, like, you know, making decisions with, with… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:59 Harry Stebbings Has there been a moment or two which have been, it could have been leaving Zenefits, it could have been raising a particular round, hitting a particular milestone, that really changed how you think about how you act and lead, though.
- ▶ 43:30 Parker Conrad I mean, like, I, um, you gotta remember that I, um, you know, at Zenefits, you know, I, I raised money at a massive valuation.
- ▶ 54:24 Parker Conrad Um, you know, I remember when I, um, sort of when I left my first startup, you know, before I started Zenefits, 2 times in the scene
20VC: Rippling's Parker Conrad on Why The VC/Founder Marriage Analogy is Weird, Why The Notion of Focus, Focus, Focus is Overrated, Why Narrow Point Solutions Are Not Best in Class Products & The Rise of the "Compound Startup"
- ▶ 0:35 Harry Stebbings Prior to founding Rippling, Parker was the co-founder and CEO at Zenefits, and if that wasn't enough, Parker's also a prominent angel investor, having invested in the likes of Census, Pulley, and then also more recently, AgentSync and True…
- ▶ 22:39 Parker Conrad You know, I've always wished there was a way, and there isn't, for me to sort of rewrite history and say, like, look, if I had fought at my last company, being forced out by A-sixteen Z and David Sachs, and had stayed in place, like, if we… 2 times in the scene
20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
- ▶ 1:05 Harry Stebbings Finally, David then became COO and interim CEO at Zenefits before starting Kraft.
- ▶ 3:34 David Sacks After that, I founded Genie, which then pivoted into becoming Yammer, which we sold to Microsoft, and also did a stint as a CEO at Zenefits.
20VC: Justin Kan on Why We Have To Normalize Vulnerability in Startups Today, Why Attaching Happiness To Future Outcomes Will Only Lead To Suffering & Why It Is Total BS That You Have To "Suffer" When Doing A Startup
- ▶ 0:58 Harry Stebbings If that wasn't enough, Justin's also a prolific angel investor, with investments in the likes of Cruise Automation, Rippling, Triplebyte, Zenefits, and more.
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
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings And prior to founding Star City, John did over three million square feet of commercial real estate transactions for clients including the likes of Optimizely, Cruise Automation, Weebly, Zenefits, and many more.
- ▶ 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: Why Consumer Brands Must Embrace Physical Retail To Avoid Inflated Online CACs, How To Alter Fund Strategy When Investing In Consumer Retail & Why The Era of The 1,000 Store Brand Is Over with Brendan Wallace, Founder and Managing Partner @ Fifth Wa
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings Cabify, the largest ride-sharing service in Latin America, and if that wasn't enough, Brendan's also an incredibly active angel investor in the past, having led over 60 angel investments in the likes of Bonobos, Dollar Shave Club, Lyft,…
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.
20VC: General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja on Why We Are In A Golden Age For VC, Why Pro-Rata Is A Lazy Posture and Why He Does Not Focus On Price
- ▶ 19:19 Hemant Taneja In the very first board meeting, Josh said, we have this competitor called Zenefis, who I had met.
20VC: Why Facebook Will Be The Company To Succeed in Crypto, Why Founders Should Be Actively Angel Investing & Commonalities of Great Leadership From Mark Zuckerberg to Mark Pincus with Darian Shirazi, Founder & CEO @ Radius
- ▶ 10:55 Darian Shirazi I think we've seen a bunch of companies that are going through big challenges in the startup community today, even, is that they raised on large valuations, and they're in the process of restructuring their business, whether it's Zenefits…
20VC: Sam Altman, Y Combinator President on What Makes Truly Great Leaders, Why We Will See A Compression of Seed Funding & The Future Scaling of YC
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings Sam also founded Hydrazine Capital, whose stellar portfolio includes the likes of Zenefits, Flexport, and Soylent, just to name a few, and I do want to say a huge thank you to Sam's wonderful younger brother Jack,
20VC: What Is Core To The Best Investor - Founder Relationships, The Biggest Risk For Founders In The Early Days & Why EQ Is The Most Important Trait For Managers with Jack Altman, Founder & CEO @ Lattice
- ▶ 0:47 Harry Stebbings And Jack has also built an incredible angel portfolio, including the likes of Gusto, Opendoor, Instacart, Zenefits, and Soylent, just to name a few.
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: Elad Gil on Becoming One of Silicon Valleys Top Angels, Why Most People Get Market Sizing Wrong & Should VC Services Always Be Bundled Together?
20VC: How LPs Can Add Strategic Value To Portfolio Companies & Why Real Estate Is On Every Whiteboard In Silicon Valley with Brendan Wallace, Co-Founder @ Fifth Wall
- ▶ 0:52 Harry Stebbings Having led over 50 investments, including Bonobos, Dollar Shave Club, Phil's Coffee, and Zenefits, just to name a few from the incredible portfolio.
20VC: What Does It Take To Gain A Late Stage Cheque Today? The Fundamental Mistakes CEOs Make In The Scaling Process & The Importance Of Building The Next S Curve For Founders with Jules Maltz, General Partner @ IVP
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Now, Jules is a general partner at Insight Venture Partners, where he's made investments in the likes of Slack, Zendesk, Twitter, Zenefits, and many more incredible companies.
20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
- ▶ 19:45 Harry Stebbings So, so I do want to deep dive on that, because one of our recent guests stated that fintech can be baked down to two things, either finding better ways to model risk, like Climate Corp or mobile credit scores, or innovate on distribution,…
20VC: YC's Justin Kan on The 3 Qualities All Successful Investors Have & Why 'VCs Don't Really Do Any Real Work'?
- ▶ 13:19 Justin Kan The good ones are like Zenefits, Cruise, which was started by one of my co-founders from Justin TV, Kyle, and my brother, Daniel, and, uh, was just acquired by GM for over a billion dollars.
- ▶ 21:26 Harry Stebbings So what's the future of Zenefits? 2 times in the scene
20 VC 075: Y COMBINATOR WEEK: Kirsty Nathoo, CFO @ Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings They were the home of Dropbox, Reddit, Airbnb, Stripe, Zenefits, and many, many more.