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Shipping Enterprise AI Agents with the CPOs of Rubrik, Glean, and Harvey
- ▶ 18:12 Jason Lemkin It's one thing if I'm at rippling and I got to get a few bucks from Parker. 6 times in the scene
The Agents #008: Agents Are Merging, Not Multiplying. Plus, Sam Blond on Why Outbound Isn't Dead.
- ▶ 1:00:35 Jason Lemkin Classic Parker Conrad, old Zenefits playbook, done again, works, right? 2 times in the scene
Why Only “WTF” Products Can Survive Today with Brett Queener Partner at Bonfire Ventures
- ▶ 14:30 Brett Queener The ability to expand and become, I know they're like Parker Conrad. 2 times in the scene
What Happens When AI Kills Your SaaS Growth? Live Q&A with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 24:01 Jason Lemkin Uh, there are some folks like Parker Conrad that disagree with me, but although we'll do something with him on it soon, I don't actually think we disagree, but I think if your second product is smaller than your first, you're not…
From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship
How to Think About Product-Led Growth, Bootstrapping vs VC, and Early Exits with Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 19:07 Jason Lemkin And they took the model, Parker, and Sam built that model at Zenefits, and then they reproduced it at Rippling.
- ▶ 35:39 Jason Lemkin Parker Conrad loves to hire failed founders to run his divisions.
The Future of AI and Sales in SaaS with Henry Schuck, CEO of ZoomInfo and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 9:44 Jason Lemkin And it took me a while to get it with Parker. 4 times in the scene
The Era of HyperFunctional SaaS is Here l SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 22:49 Jason Lemkin And the one that I've talked about a little bit is, at first I thought it was crazy, was watching and learning from what Parker Conrad was doing at Rippling.
The Revenue Playbook: Rippling’s Top 3 Growth Tactics at Scale with Rippling CRO Matt Plank
- ▶ 1:44 Sam Blond Sales go to market higher at Rippling in Parker's basement when there was zero dollars of revenue, and we fast forward to today, and Rippling is a 14 plus billion dollar, many thousands of employees, I think 1500 folks in the revenue… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:03 Sam Blond Outbound started with Matt in Parker's basement, writing cold emails, dropping people in sequences and making cold calls.
- ▶ 17:59 Sam Blond I think Parker and Rippling really invented that term.
- ▶ 23:16 Matt Plank One, it's a great question because there is, I had to develop a very specific point of view on this because Parker, our CEO, every single new product we launched, he'd be like new sales. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:32 Matt Plank I think one of the lessons early on, I remember asking our CEO Parker, like, why can't we have CSMs and account managers?
Navigating Fundraising and the VC Landscape Today with 20VC and Visionaries Club
- ▶ 36:26 Harry Stebbings Parker Conrad from Rippling, and I always have this beef on Twitter, and he argues me, you're wrong, and you can put the money. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 22:40 Jason Lemkin One year ago today, Parker Conroe was here at Rippling talking about building everything from day one.
Advice Every SaaS Founder Needs to Know to Scale to $100m with Sam Blond and Jason Lemkin
How to Grow Revenue Faster in the Second Half of 2023 with Founders Fund
Why You're Unfundable Today: The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS Part 2 with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 35:23 Jason Lemkin I'm not as good as Parker. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:12 Jason Lemkin Well, look, I think there's a lot, I mean, there's a lot of, what, what most folks do wrong, almost all COs, um, I remember I actually did it with Sam and Parker in the early days of Zenefits, and then they got it, they got it right, is…
The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS In 2023: Part 1 AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 16:59 Jason Lemkin Now you can't, I don't know if you saw Parker Conrad from Ripley, you know, they've raised, he's burned, he's burned and raised so much money, you can never catch up with him if you're bootstrapped, right?
SaaStr CRO Confidential: Principles that Drove Wiz’s $0 to The First $100m ARR | Wiz CRO Colin Jones
- ▶ 0:39 Sam Blond I also have a session with Parker Conrad, the CEO of Rippling.
- ▶ 7:33 Sam Blond Um, it was at Zenefits Parker and at Brex Pedro Enrique, and man, I just like believed that these people were going to build a really big business.
- ▶ 13:39 Sam Blond Jason, uh, Lemkin introduced me to Parker at Zenefits when I was ready for my first VP of sales opportunity and YC
- ▶ 37:55 Sam Blond Um, and about in March of that year, Parker sat down with me and Matt Epstein, who was the, uh, marketing leader, 2 times in the scene
CRO Confidential: 3 Secrets For Early-Stage Startups To Acquire Customers | CoSell.io Co-Founder
SaaStr CRO Confidential: Sam Blond + Omni Founder Colin Zima on the Power of Leveraging Your Network
- ▶ 1:05 Sam Blond And, um, Parker, who is my CEO at Zenefits, now the CEO at Rippling, I came to him and said, uh, I'm investing now. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:56 Colin Zima Um, and it's, I mean, I think that was really the core connection to Parker is it's really nice to build something, uh, take all of the learning that you have from that thing and sort of re rev it and try to build it better. 2 times in the scene
CRO Confidential: Sales Recruitment and Hiring Managers With Ben Braverman
- ▶ 4:09 Ben Braverman Like, you know, Sam, you, you and Parker, I'll let you talk about Parker, but like these, these guys are, when you meet them, you can just feel in your bones.
- ▶ 8:05 Sam Blond Um, when I joined, uh, Zenefits, Parker, um, was introduced to me by Jason Lemkin. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:09 Sam Blond Parker told me Zinovitz is going to be a hundred billion dollar company, and I believed him.
SaaStr CRO Confidential:Hiring a Great VP of Sales Today Sam Blond + Former Lattice CRO Dini Mehta
SaaStr CRO Confidential: Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond + Rippling VP Sales Matt Plank
- ▶ 1:34 Sam Blond Um, it is a sort of success story and, and real vindication of Parker Conrad from Zenefits.
- ▶ 4:00 Matt Plank So when I joined Rippling, um, we were, uh, you know, I was looking at a few opportunities at the time and Rippling was currently being run out of the basement of Parker's house. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:25 Sam Blond And so Parker and you took a different path there. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:06 Sam Blond So you, Parker starts this business, um, and, and the idea isn't like Zinefits with a slightly better UI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:36 Matt Plank And so we, we focused early on, um, both a broker channel, which is obviously a lot of irony for those that know the Zenefits story well, like, you know, partnering with brokers, like if anything, in the early days, brokers took calls with…
- ▶ 17:39 Matt Plank I think Parker was like, of course there was an ambitious revenue plan that in order to hit the revenue plan, you needed to hire reps who carried a quota, who would walk you up to the revenue plan. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:35 Matt Plank Working for Parker means like, you know, signing up for ambitious or at least entertaining like the most ambitious goals, right? 4 times in the scene
SaaStr CRO Confidential: How to Raise in Late 2022 with Jason Lemkin and Sam Blond of Founders Fund
- ▶ 20:09 Jason Lemkin So if you're a sales, notwithstanding Parker's comment, which we could, we could go deeper into my view of ventures. 4 times in the scene
CRO Confidential: Sales Comp, Quotas & Recruiting with Jason Lemkin and Sam Blond of Founders Fund
- ▶ 19:12 Jason Lemkin Uh, I literally think of all of the companies I've invested in, I may be the only investor that ever introduced an actual VP, including you to Parker.
Live from SaaStr Annual 2022: AMA with SaaStr's CEO
- ▶ 32:08 Jason Lemkin Uh, Parker from, from, um, from, uh, from, um, sorry, I'm getting tired. 4 times in the scene