Alex Bouaziz
Co-Founder and CEO, Deel. On 3 shows, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Alex Bouaziz is the co-founder and CEO of Deel, a global payroll, compliance, and HR platform launched in 2019 that scaled to over $1 billion in ARR. An alumnus of the Technion and MIT, he also co-founded the mobile video app Lifeslice and early-stage investment fund Sarona Ventures.
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4appearances
121statements
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44said about them ↓ Everything Alex Bouaziz said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
AI-native new graduates will 10x output and displace older workers
“I actually think most of those people, most of the new grads, they're gonna be so good at using those AI tools. They're gonna put all the people that are in the older range out of business and be able to do tenx more just by having lived through, like, this re…”
Silicon Valley insiders manufactured narratives to devalue Deel's rapid growth
“I think a weird thing that happened with us is the combination of having really good numbers on the board plus not spending time with non-internal investors allowed for other people in the ecosystem to try to give reason to justify Our growth, right? Like, oh,…”
Bouaziz predicts Deel will win its legal disputes with competitors
“I feel pretty confident that the same way we've been winning in the marketplace will win in the court of laws.”
Bouaziz claims rival Rippling tries to compete through media headlines
“I think it's unfortunate that the way they're trying to compete is through media and through headlines and things like that.”
Bouaziz argues investors should earn pro-rata rights rather than receive them automatically
“No, I think pro rata should be earned.”
Bouaziz believes high-growth tech companies should hire engineers as CMOs
“But in his mind, most chief marketing officers are not good. The truth is I actually agree with him. And for a while I was looking for a CMO with this experience, that experience, and what I've realized is, like, the best CMOs I've encountered over the last fe…”
Bouaziz claims Rippling engaged in three years of poor competitive behavior
“Well, I think you should read our lawsuit in Delaware. You know, three years of poor way of competing in the market.”
Alex Bouaziz: The younger generation building their careers is 100% entitled
“A hundred percent entitled. Because there's an age for everything, and it's fine if you value work-life balance, that's something important for you, that's great. I think when you're building your career, and when there's a lot of things to do, you should work…”
Alex Bouaziz believes Deel is undervalued at its current valuation
“I still think the business personally is, is undervalued, right?”
Multi-floor offices function effectively as remote companies, according to Bouaziz
“Most companies are remote. As soon as you start being on two floors, three floors, you don't know the people in your company. Whether they're sitting on the third floor or they're at home, it doesn't really make a difference to you, right?”
Bouaziz: Deel's regulatory infrastructure protects it from pure AI disruption
“Clearly we have AI tailwinds in terms of what we can offer our customers, right? And if you combine this with the regulatory work that we've done, which is really hard to reciprocate, like, you can see that it's the foundations of the business are really hard …”
Bouaziz claims tech journalism is fundamentally broken due to unverified reporting
“And, like, when you see the things that they can publish with unnamed sources that are completely false, with no retractions and things like that, you kind of, Start thinking that in many ways there's something super broken about media”
Bouaziz never conducts scheduled one-on-ones or formal performance reviews
“I've never had one-on-ones with them. I've never truly had performance reviews with them.”
Bouaziz claims Andreessen Horowitz stood by Deel like no other investor
“Andreessen has been top tier by far, and they've always been super supportive through rainbows and unicorns all the way to shitstorms. They stood by us like no investor ever did.”
Bouaziz predicts Deel can scale to 100M payrolled workers in 5-10 years
“Well, see, I think we can be very aggressively winning most of the market. I actually think the gap between 10 to a hundred million over the next five to 10 years is not that big.”
Bouaziz: Early international sales reps are not defocusing if selling core product
“I don't think having one person running around when you're like 10 people, 20 people trying to sell something is defocusing. The only thing that can be defocusing is if they come and start telling you know, for Brazil, I need this specific thing for this count…”
Bouaziz predicts acquired IT platform Hofy can become a $10B company
“Yeah, I actually think it will, it can be a ten billion dollar company.”
Bouaziz claims all Deel acquisitions have grown by hundreds or thousands of percent
“Very interesting playbook of, like, integrating the front end, giving it to your sales org, migrating all the customers in parallel in the back end, like, really paid dividends to us, and all of the acquisitions we have grown by, like, hundreds if not thousand…”
Bouaziz claims Sequoia Capital invested in every competitor of Deel
“Sadly, they invested in every competitor you can think of.”
Bouaziz: Deel is likely the largest fully distributed private company
“I think we might be like one of the biggest, if not the biggest private company that's fully distributed, by the way.”
Bouaziz: HR and payroll space will yield one dominant generational winner
“I think there can be a lot of great companies in this space. I think, like, every space there's, like, one clear winner that's gonna come out of this. Right. And that's going to be significantly larger than others. That's how I kind of word it. Will you have, …”
Alex Bouaziz took $10M in secondary liquidity to buy an apartment
“On my side, around 10, mainly to buy, like, an apartment and a few different things I wanted to do, like buying some of Presence from my father and my parents. But the cool part is that when we did that Sho and I, we actually allowed all our early employees to…”
Alex Bouaziz: Deel's board deck was leaked to competitors by investors
“I see everything you send is forwarded and read by all your competitors, and that's number one. Number two, I mean, even my board deck somehow ended up into competitors' hands, so.”
The other half of the tape: Alex Bouaziz's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 42 times in 17 episodes across the shows. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 26Anish Acharya 7David George 5Sebastian Siemiatkowski 1Molly O'Shea 1Miles Clements 1
Statements about Alex Bouaziz, by other people (2)
Stebbings passed on Deel's seed round
“You know, I turned down deal at the seed round, because I was like, payroll? Really? Paychecks? ADP? Come on, this is ridiculous. With this kid, Alex, who's now a friend, he won't mind that.”
Stebbings: Deel Co-Founder Alex Bouaziz Handled $1,000 Deal Lead Personally
“I pinged Alex on a Sunday morning seven a.m., Saying, hey, they want an intro to a sales rapper on your team. Who's the best person? He's like, intro to me, please. I'm like, dude, it's like a thousand dollar deal. He's not worth your time. He's like, no, no, …”
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- Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Inside Klarna's IPO CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| 20VCLEDGER | Co-Founder and CEO, Deel | 2 | 89 | 100% 13/13 | full record on 20VC → |
| SOURCERYLEDGER | Co-Founder and CEO, Deel | 1 | 25 | 100% 2/2 | full record on Sourcery → |
 a16zLEDGER | Co-Founder and CEO, Deel | 1 | 7 | 100% 1/1 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |