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Conrad: Rippling aims to match competitors with 20% of R&D cost
“Our goal is, is to be able to, you know, match or really exceed in a lot of ways, the capability of the current sort of best in class products in the market with like, 20% of the R and D investment.”
Parker Conrad Oct 3, 2022 ▶ 21:30 Parker Conrad: How I Got Ousted from Zenefits and Came Back with a Vengence | 20VC #932 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Partly held up
Conrad: Rippling partner products will have equal distribution to internal SKUs
“No, I think, I mean, we have a really robust partner ecosystem, and I think you know, our goal is to have you know, companies that we partner with that, that compete against internal rippling products on even footing. And not just in the sense that, you know, …”
Parker Conrad Oct 3, 2022 ▶ 34:51 Parker Conrad: How I Got Ousted from Zenefits and Came Back with a Vengence | 20VC #932 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Conrad: Rippling will become the Salesforce for employee data
“I think Rippling is going to be the Salesforce for employee data.”
Parker Conrad Apr 26, 2021 ▶ 37:56 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"
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2027
Conrad expects Rippling to be a public company by 2027
“Five years from now? I would I would hope so. I don't, you know, and to like, just to be clear for you know, there's like no plans on any, you know, people are going to be like suddenly like timing our IPO and that's not there. It's not something that we spent…”
Parker Conrad Oct 3, 2022 ▶ 1:06:18 Parker Conrad: How I Got Ousted from Zenefits and Came Back with a Vengence | 20VC #932 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Conrad: Society will view mass incarceration with horror in 100-200 years
“I'm on a very weird and opposite end of the spectrum. Which is that I think that the fact that we lock human beings in cages for these extended periods of time is such an awful thing that we're going to look back on a 102 hundred years from now with just absol…”
Parker Conrad Apr 26, 2021 ▶ 34:19 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"
Prediction Partly held up
Conrad: Rippling launching Finance Cloud product covering cards and expenses
“We're very close to launching. And I think by the time this comes out, we'll already have launched our spend management what we call our finance cloud vertical, which is corporate cards, expense reimbursements, bill pay.”
Parker Conrad Oct 3, 2022 ▶ 22:30 Parker Conrad: How I Got Ousted from Zenefits and Came Back with a Vengence | 20VC #932 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2027
Conrad says he desperately never wants to start another startup again
“Starting a company is it's a real grind for a long time. Like I desperately want to never do it again.”
Parker Conrad Oct 3, 2022 ▶ 39:06 Parker Conrad: How I Got Ousted from Zenefits and Came Back with a Vengence | 20VC #932 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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