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“This company, you know, is pretty well known, and they've got a good SMB payroll business going, but like, at a certain scale, they switched to Workday. When they switched to Workday, they stopped using their own product, and when they stopped using their own …”

“When I joined Rippling, we were at something like four and a half million bucks in revenue, which by itself is a very exciting number, I think, going from zero to something. But in hindsight, obviously, it was very, very early in the company's business, in the…”

“And I think in the next five years, a lot of the value of AI is going to be most apparent and captured by the businesses that have the underlying data and tooling to do quote unquote deterministic things or perform tasks in the software world”

“I am skeptical as to the survivor, the survival rate of many of the AI companies that I see starting today because they're going to perpetually drink their data through a straw from other systems. And those other systems are never, ever, ever going to let othe…”

“And so, TalentSignal, by reasoning from the work product only, Like it doesn't have access to demographic data. It doesn't know your race, ethnicity, you know, your age, your work location. It just knows this is the source code you wrote, or these are the cust…”

“We didn't build a chatbot. We didn't build a co-pilot. We didn't build any of these surface level obvious capabilities. We're gonna build them. They'll be in there at some point. Who cares? It's not gonna sell a single extra subscription of software.”

“People are conditioned by the messaging around startups to believe that if you only persist, that if you only work hard enough, you will find success. And that is just obviously not true. If you look in the rearview mirror, if you look at the data, many, many,…”

“Parker runs payroll for the, for all 5005 people don't even believe us on this. They're like, there's no way that Parker personally runs payroll for 5500 people. The answer is you're wrong. He really does.”

“We have over a 150 people who have started companies that now work at Rippling.”

“When we were building this product, she was an engineer in India who was working on one of our toughest problems, and she was singled out as a high potential employee. And she was in fact pretty early in her tenure at the company. And we paid attention to that…”

“Parker, our CEO, he runs payroll for the company. Like, every pay run goes through him. He also approves every expense above 10 bucks.”

“We got about 3500 employees. We've got tens of thousands of customers using the platform, so I'd say we're doing something right.”

“Everything I do today in my job at Rippling, we're, you know, 2800 employees. We're still growing at, you know, a massive growth rate on a very large base of revenue.”