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Shipping Enterprise AI Agents with the CPOs of Rubrik, Glean, and Harvey Sep 2, 2026 · 1 mention

Is The Classic GTM Playbook Really Dead? with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Oct 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:40 Jason Lemkin You're going to see folks that worked at wherever Brex and Rippling and Ramp and Datadog and Mongo.

The 2025 SaaS Vibe Check: What Founders Need to Know Right Now with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin Feb 19, 2025 · 1 mention

From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship Feb 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:24 Sam Blond You send them a, um, a pointed email and it's, Hey, I know if it's another startup, I see that you invested in Rippling.

Usage-Based Revenue Models: Successes & Pitfalls from Checkr COO Lindsey Scrase on CRO Confidential Jan 8, 2025 · 1 mention

HubSpot Co-Founder Brian Halligan on How to Hire Great VPs and How M&A Really Works Jan 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

HubSpot Co-Founder and Chair Brian Halligan on AI and SaaS, Board Meetings, and When Incumbents Win Dec 27, 2024 · 1 mention

How to Think About Product-Led Growth, Bootstrapping vs VC, and Early Exits with Jason Lemkin Dec 18, 2024 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 18:57 unnamed speaker Very aggressive on marketing because earlier today, the CRO of Rippling spoke. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:37 Jason Lemkin That's why like at Rip Lane, where was it before? 2 times in the scene

The Future of AI and Sales in SaaS with Henry Schuck, CEO of ZoomInfo and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin Oct 18, 2024 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 9:39 Jason Lemkin The one that has kicked us in the ass in a way, in a fun way is rippling. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:46 Jason Lemkin CROs at Brex, CRO at Ripley now, Gong, also CRO at Gong, CRO at Gong. 2 times in the scene

The Era of HyperFunctional SaaS is Here l SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Oct 15, 2024 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 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. 5 times in the scene

The Revenue Playbook: Rippling’s Top 3 Growth Tactics at Scale with Rippling CRO Matt Plank Sep 27, 2024 · 19 mentions

  • ▶ 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… 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 3:11 Sam Blond Why don't you just talk us through the evolution of Outbound at Rippling from those early days to where it is today?
  • ▶ 10:58 Matt Plank Marketing does a great job harvesting the things like going to review sites, going to demo sites, all the different interactions with our brand, content downloads, whatever, and, like, pushing that into the CRM so the SDR can, like, see… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:30 Sam Blond There are a couple of things that come to mind that rippling is like bucking the trend on here.
  • ▶ 17:53 Sam Blond So Rippling, I think is famous for the concept of a compound startup. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:18 Matt Plank Like, I needed the, like, mini CRO type of person to come in and run this org, almost like an incubated inside of, like, broader Rippling. 4 times in the scene

How to Hire a Great VP of Sales Today with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin Sep 19, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 39:54 Jason Lemkin Why are those folks the heads of revenue at Rippling and Brex and so many other companies? 2 times in the scene

Navigating Fundraising and the VC Landscape Today with 20VC and Visionaries Club Aug 30, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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.

Top 10 Go To Market Mistakes Founders Make Again … and Again with SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin Jul 5, 2024 · 1 mention

The Future of AI in Sales with Gong’s CEO and Co-Founder Amit Bendov Jun 13, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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 Mar 20, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:34 Jason Lemkin You guys did what Sam did one with Ashley who worked with him and his head of outbound a Rippling.

From Zero to Hero: How to Dominate Outbound SaaS Sales with Rippling and Sam Blond Jan 4, 2024 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 1:16 Sam Blond And now Ashley is the VP of SDR at Rippling.
  • ▶ 20:31 Sam Blond And over time, rippling today is several hundred million dollars in AR. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:04 Ashley Kelly We have a version of that at Rippling.
  • ▶ 37:00 unnamed speaker But I think one thing that is, like, a blessing at Rippling is we actually are very conservative with the number of reps that report to managers, and that really helps from, like, a day-to-day coaching perspective, especially in this,…
  • ▶ 40:40 Ashley Kelly Most of my managers, I'd say, 20 of my 30 today were SDRs at Rippling. 2 times in the scene

CRO Confidential: The Hangover's Over: 5 Ways to Get Your SaaS Revenue Back On Track with Gong's SVP Nov 23, 2023 · 5 mentions

How to Navigate Strategic Change for Growth with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin Oct 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:33 Jason Lemkin They hire the Dropbox or the, the whoever, the Rippling, the Checker, the cool ones, and they all fail in vertical SaaS, right?

2024 SaaS Landscape: Why 2024 Could be Pretty Darn Good for SaaS IPOs with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin Oct 3, 2023 · 2 mentions

How to Grow Revenue Faster in the Second Half of 2023 with Founders Fund Jul 19, 2023 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 15:13 Sam Blond Rippling does a really clever way of doing this that I like. 6 times in the scene

The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS In 2023: Part 1 AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Jul 12, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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?
  • ▶ 24:12 Jason Lemkin You know, you're not rippling or Divi or LaunchDarkly or UiPath or Loom, so,

Rippling CEO Parker Conrad's Theory of the Compound Startup: Disrupting How We Think About Software Jun 27, 2023 · 30 mentions

  • ▶ 4:40 Parker Conrad So in Ripley's case, that would be employee data. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:58 Parker Conrad Um, Rippling is launching this week. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:12 Parker Conrad And so right now, Rippling has actually three separate clouds. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:01 Sam Blond What are the advantages or why would I go with a company like Rippling where I'm one of 22 skews that you're focused on versus a point solution that's potentially a big company, a deal, a remote, something like that, that is more of a… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:48 Sam Blond Um, and then you were founder and CEO at Zenefits, which was, it was more compound startup, and now you're rippling, which is sort of like the ultimate compound startup. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:40 Parker Conrad And that is able to make customers successful and solve their problems by bringing them like rippling solutions.
  • ▶ 30:07 Parker Conrad So I would say that, I mean, first of all, there's actually, this is, there's a tremendous amount of disagreement internally at Rippling about how to do this. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:48 Sam Blond And so, if you are offering 25 different products, um, and Rippling is known as sort of like all-in-one HR and IT, 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:30 Parker Conrad Um, you want to build products where, um, the middle, we, we talk a lot about middleware at Rippling, which are the sort of platform components, the elements that we try and build once, and then reuse across our products. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:20 Parker Conrad Um, so we actually started very purposefully at Rip Lane, um, with three things.

Why The Era of Efficient Growth is Now: The State of the Market with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin Jun 16, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:31 Jason Lemkin There are, there are ripplings that'll be here later and UI paths and, and, and looms that are all speaking today that grew faster than a hundred.

SaaStr CRO Confidential: Principles that Drove Wiz’s $0 to The First $100m ARR | Wiz CRO Colin Jones Jun 1, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:39 Sam Blond I also have a session with Parker Conrad, the CEO of Rippling.
  • ▶ 22:59 Sam Blond We've had several folks on this podcast, um, Jameson Young from Gong, Matt Plank from Rippling, Trish Masha now at Guild Education who ran RevOps at, uh, Brex.

CRO Confidential: 3 Secrets For Early-Stage Startups To Acquire Customers | CoSell.io Co-Founder May 16, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:58 Sam Blond And one session with Parker Conrad, uh, the CEO at Rippling, my former CEO at Zenefits, also close friend and awesome person.

SaaStr CRO Confidential: Sam Blond + Omni Founder Colin Zima on the Power of Leveraging Your Network May 9, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 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.
  • ▶ 5:49 Sam Blond And I really liked the analogy that I hadn't thought of before you making it, but, um, the, the, the circumstances were certainly different, but, you know, Parker sort of building Zenefits two point O, which is now rippling.

SaaStr CRO Confidential: Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Roam | Founder-led Sales Apr 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:10 Howard Lerman So, you know, it turns out that in order to build a compound startup, as, as you know, uh, from, from, you know, what you've experienced it, it, it rippling, for example, or observed it rippling, for example, uh, there's just customers…

CRO Confidential: Sales Recruitment and Hiring Managers With Ben Braverman Jan 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:03 Sam Blond This reminds me of Matt Plank, uh, at, at Rippling, very early sales leader, employee number five, seed stage company, uh, or, uh, Flexport was most recently valued at eight billion dollars, uh, several billion dollars of top line revenue,…

SaaStr CRO Confidential:Hiring a Great VP of Sales Today Sam Blond + Former Lattice CRO Dini Mehta Jan 3, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:30 Sam Blond Uh, last week we had Matt Plank on, and Matt Plank is the, um, head of revenue at Rippling, and he was actually the first sales hire that Parker made, and of course, like, that is an exception to the rule that worked, and Parker and Matt…
  • ▶ 18:04 Sam Blond There's going to be Rippling. 2 times in the scene

SaaStr CRO Confidential: Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond + Rippling VP Sales Matt Plank Dec 15, 2022 · 26 mentions

  • ▶ 0:32 Sam Blond And now Plank is just continuing this unbelievable career, uh, as the revenue lead for Rippling. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:04 Matt Plank So, um, the kind of simple shortest way to describe Rippling is we are, um, you know, we're, we're kind of an employee system of record that starts at, you know, employee data at the core of that system of record. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:07 Sam Blond So you joined as sort of a senior sales leader and you were the first sales hire that Rippling made. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:41 Matt Plank And so we were like looking for that thing at Rippling, which was not HR and payroll. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:28 Matt Plank And so we knew it rippling early on that we needed to have a channel. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:02 Sam Blond Um, so let's continue along this, uh, scaling go to market at rippling journey. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:02 Matt Plank Like, Parker, from the very beginning of Rippling, we had one skew when we started Rippling, like, one product that we sold, but Parker always had the vision of building this compound startup and building all of these products on top of… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:44 Sam Blond We probably got to where Rippling was at like ten million in ARR and y'all are hundreds of millions of dollars in ARR today.

SaaStr CRO Confidential: How to Raise in Late 2022 with Jason Lemkin and Sam Blond of Founders Fund Nov 1, 2022 · 2 mentions

Live from SaaStr Annual 2022: AMA with SaaStr's CEO Sep 16, 2022 · 1 mention

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