Zenefits
6 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Parker Conrad · said 24 times in 6 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Parker Conrad (11), Sonal Chokshi (5), Mike Masnick (4), Kim Milosevich (1), Frank Chen (1), Alex Rampell (1), Adrian Fenty (1)
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2019 23 mentions in 5 episodes 5 per episode
- a16z Podcast | How One Startup Went from Being Banned by Regulators to Being Open for Business
- a16z Podcast | A Whirlwind Tour of Policy Issues in Tech
- a16z Podcast | Crisis Communications
- a16z Podcast | Reinventing Insurance
- a16z Podcast | The Changing Relationship Between Tech and Government
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Zenefits, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Utah threatened Zenefits with fines for offering free software to businesses
“In Utah, the insurance commissioner in Utah decided to take action, said that, listen, one of their missions as a DOI was to make sure that there was fair competition between all brokers in the state, and everyone was on a level playing field, and they said th…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Utah legislation clarified that Zenefits was never illegal under existing state law
“Technically what the bill did is I think it actually didn't change the law. What it did is it clarified that the existing Utah law never made benefits illegal in the first place. So it was a clarification rather than a change to the law”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019
Small business B2B clients are highly influential political allies for startups
“Small business owners in our case, like tend to be politically very well connected. And so when you have, you know, small business owners who, you know, in Utah who have, you know, if you have a company that has You know, 50 or a hundred employees, like, that'…”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Zenefits should have recognized the Utah dispute was political, not legal
“I think what I probably would have done differently in the case of Utah is I probably would have, I wish I had realized earlier in the process that we were in sort of a political battle rather than a legal battle with the Department of Insurance.”