Josh Reeves

Co-Founder and CEO, Gusto · 0 appearances on the record.

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Josh Reeves co-founded Gusto in 2011, serving as its chief executive officer. Previously, he earned degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University and founded the startup Unwrap.

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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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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

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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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

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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

Disclosure

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

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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

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Early days building a decacorn	Jun 4, 2025	19m	aired address

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