Gusto

6 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 4, 2025 by Josh Reeves · said 143 times in 28 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Jun 4, 2025
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Reeves: Gusto's first cohort was restricted to salaried California first-time employers
“So there was a really clear scoping here to companies in California that had never used payroll before, were paying employees for the first time. They were all salaried employees.”
Josh Reeves Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 14:26 Early days building a decacorn
Jun 4, 2025 bullish
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Reeves: Gusto serves over 400,000 businesses, led by word of mouth
“Even today in 20, 25 with, you know, over 400,000 companies on Gusto and us adding A lot every year. Organic, word of mouth, remains the biggest driver of leads in Tupper Funnel for us”
Josh Reeves Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 20:44 Early days building a decacorn
Jun 4, 2025
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Reeves: Gusto initially ran payroll via in-person visits on a co-founder's laptop
“So the first set of companies that onboarded to Gusto, and we had a different name at the time than Payroll what that meant was we would go to your house and You would type into, it was typically Tomer one of my co-founders, and we love to say you can't spell …”
Josh Reeves Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 13:39 Early days building a decacorn
Jun 4, 2025
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ZenPayroll added over 100 self-serve customers in its first month
“In that first month through end of January, we added over a hundred customers, and the hundred customers, the majority of which, set up, onboarded without talking to us, you know, they could do it on their own”
Josh Reeves Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 18:33 Early days building a decacorn
Jun 4, 2025
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Reeves: Gusto co-founder Eddie Kim lived in a closet for five months
“Eddie, Eddie slept and lived in that closet for about five months, and it fit a air mattress you know, like I said, it had a skylight and it was also where my other roommate stored all of her clothes, though, so it was kind of both a natural closet and a quasi…”
Josh Reeves Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 11:58 Early days building a decacorn
Jun 4, 2025
Assertion Supported
Reeves: About 40% of US companies were penalized yearly for manual payroll
“Like, about 40% of companies were doing it manually and getting fined every year because you have local, state, federal.”
Josh Reeves Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 6:21 Early days building a decacorn
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