Parker Conrad
19 statements across 7 episodes · 12 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Dec 15, 2022 by Matt Plank · said 94 times in 25 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by Sam Blond (38), Jason Lemkin (30), Matt Plank (19), Harry Stebbings (2), Colin Zima (2), Brett Queener (2), Ben Braverman (1)
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2026 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2025 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Why Only “WTF” Products Can Survive Today with Brett Queener Partner at Bonfire Ventures
- What Happens When AI Kills Your SaaS Growth? Live Q&A with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 20 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- The Revenue Playbook: Rippling’s Top 3 Growth Tactics at Scale with Rippling CRO Matt Plank
- The Future of AI and Sales in SaaS with Henry Schuck, CEO of ZoomInfo and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- How to Think About Product-Led Growth, Bootstrapping vs VC, and Early Exits with Jason Lemkin
- Navigating Fundraising and the VC Landscape Today with 20VC and Visionaries Club
- Advice Every SaaS Founder Needs to Know to Scale to $100m with Sam Blond and Jason Lemkin
- The Era of HyperFunctional SaaS is Here l SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- Deep Dive: Easy Sales Concepts So Many Get Wrong with Sam Blond
- The Future of AI in Sales with Gong’s CEO and Co-Founder Amit Bendov
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 26 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- CRO Confidential: Sales Recruitment and Hiring Managers With Ben Braverman
- SaaStr CRO Confidential: Sam Blond + Omni Founder Colin Zima on the Power of Leveraging Your Network
- SaaStr CRO Confidential: Principles that Drove Wiz’s $0 to The First $100m ARR | Wiz CRO Colin Jones
- Why You're Unfundable Today: The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS Part 2 with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- How to Grow Revenue Faster in the Second Half of 2023 with Founders Fund
- The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS In 2023: Part 1 AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- CRO Confidential: 3 Secrets For Early-Stage Startups To Acquire Customers | CoSell.io Co-Founder
- SaaStr CRO Confidential:Hiring a Great VP of Sales Today Sam Blond + Former Lattice CRO Dini Mehta
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 36 mentions in 4 episodes 9 per episode
- SaaStr CRO Confidential: Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond + Rippling VP Sales Matt Plank
- SaaStr CRO Confidential: How to Raise in Late 2022 with Jason Lemkin and Sam Blond of Founders Fund
- Live from SaaStr Annual 2022: AMA with SaaStr's CEO
- CRO Confidential: Sales Comp, Quotas & Recruiting with Jason Lemkin and Sam Blond of Founders Fund
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
Everything said about Parker Conrad, oldest first
Dec 15, 2022 positive
Dec 15, 2022
Early Rippling had no paying customers, selling exclusively to YC startups
“And so at that point we were really just selling to YC companies. Like we had come out of the recent winter batch. And so that was really what our top of funnel was selling to other YC companies in the batch. And we were really starting from zero. I mean, we h…”
Dec 15, 2022 positive
May 9, 2023 positive
Jun 27, 2023 positive
Conrad: I Personally Run Global Payroll for Rippling's 2,000 Employees
“Rippling's a 2000 person company. I am the only admin for our system in Rippling. So I personally run payroll for our 2000 person company across about a dozen different countries around the world, ah, natively in Rip Lane. And, ah, I do that, you know, as a pa…”
Jun 27, 2023 positive
Conrad: Integration is the product for compound startups
“The most important thing to start with is like the, that the integration is the product. You want to build in a space where there are problems because of disconnected systems or business process, and that you have these advantages where if you combine everythi…”
Jun 27, 2023
Conrad: Rippling built payroll, device management, and identity on day one
“We actually started very purposefully at Rip Lane with three things. So on day one we had like, literally, like, two or three people working on payroll, building payroll and HRIS, two or three people working on device management, so, like, mobile device manage…”
Jun 27, 2023 bullish
Conrad: Rippling kept ~130% NDR despite 10% drop in seat-based retention
“We went from our customers hiring tons of people and getting tons of free seats because they just are constantly adding new employees in the system. To a 10% drop in our, you know, annual NDR cohorts from a seat basis. But our NDR stayed at like a 130%.”
Jun 27, 2023 positive
Blond: Zenefits raised its 2014 ARR target from $10M to $20M
“One of my favorite Parker stories is I joined in late 2013, so my first full year was 2014, and about a quarter in, we were shooting for a revenue target of ten million dollars by the end of the year. We started at something like half a million dollars of ARR.…”
Jun 27, 2023
Conrad: Single-product startups rarely build subsequent products
“I think what happens is the companies that start with one thing with like this plan. Yeah, yeah, but someday we're going to build like the next thing. They very rarely get to the next thing. Like the first thing just sucks up more and more time and energy and …”
Jun 27, 2023 negative
Jun 27, 2023 positive
Jun 27, 2023
Jun 27, 2023 bullish
Jun 27, 2023 positive
Conrad: Compound startups require entrepreneurial business unit leaders
“And then there are a lot of organizational challenges where you've got to often organize the company into business units with sort of strong entrepreneurial leads that can run individual products relatively independently to sort of paralyze execution.”
Jun 13, 2024 neutral
Sep 27, 2024 bullish
Rippling reached a $14B valuation with hundreds of millions in ARR
“Rippling is a 14 plus billion dollar, many thousands of employees, I think 1500 folks in the revenue organization, several hundred million dollars of ARR, and Matt grew that organization and that revenue number from making cold calls in Parker's basement just …”
Dec 18, 2024 positive
Aug 27, 2025 neutral
Jason Lemkin: You aren't multi-product if product two is smaller
“I think if your second product is smaller than your first, you're not multi-product because it doesn't get you anywhere. If you get to a hundred million and it takes you two years to launch a product that can only do fifty million, it doesn't get you anywhere,…”