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Josh Reeves

Co-Founder and CEO, Gusto · 1 appearance 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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4 assertions · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Josh argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Assertion Supported
Reeves: One-third of US businesses get fined annually for payroll tax errors
“Of the six million companies in the U S every year, about a third of companies get fined for incorrectly doing their payroll taxes.”
Josh Reeves Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 5:18 He's 32 and raised $136m in Funding But It's About More Than That with Josh Reeves EP 186:

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Everything Josh Reeves said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Reeves: Over 98% of Gusto free-trial users convert to paying customers
“So we give folks a one or two month free trial when they start and over 98% convert from the free trial to being a paid customer.”
Josh Reeves Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 7:25 He's 32 and raised $136m in Funding But It's About More Than That with Josh Reeves EP 186:
Disclosure
Reeves: Gusto rejected all VCs in seed round, raised from 20 CEOs
“And so our seed round, which we did in 2012, we actually had several different VC firms offer, and we actually declined all VC firms. We did a seed round with about 20 CEOs, and it was all individuals. And today, We've done that in every round. We have about 7…”
Josh Reeves Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 12:09 He's 32 and raised $136m in Funding But It's About More Than That with Josh Reeves EP 186:
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Reeves: Gusto serves over 25,000 paid small business customers across America
“We have now over 25,000 small businesses spread across the country over half a percent of all employers in America using the product, partnering with us.”
Josh Reeves Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 7:08 He's 32 and raised $136m in Funding But It's About More Than That with Josh Reeves EP 186:
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Reeves: Unwrap generated thousands daily and reached 40M users
“You know, we were making a few thousand dollars a day in ad revenue. When we got started, we had over forty million users”
Josh Reeves Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 3:00 He's 32 and raised $136m in Funding But It's About More Than That with Josh Reeves EP 186:
Assertion Supported
Reeves: One-third of US businesses get fined annually for payroll tax errors
“Of the six million companies in the U S every year, about a third of companies get fined for incorrectly doing their payroll taxes.”
Josh Reeves Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 5:18 He's 32 and raised $136m in Funding But It's About More Than That with Josh Reeves EP 186:
Disclosure
Reeves: Gusto raised a $50M insider round, totaling $136M raised
“Yeah, we did a kind of an insider round, fifty million dollars, but the company in aggregate has raised about one hundred and thirty six million.”
Josh Reeves Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 9:38 He's 32 and raised $136m in Funding But It's About More Than That with Josh Reeves EP 186:
Disclosure
Reeves: Gusto had $50M in the bank before its insider round
“We still had fifty million in the bank in December, and basically some of our existing investors were really excited about how we were doing, and were interested in putting in additional capital, and so we basically set terms and then welcomed them in as incre…”
Josh Reeves Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 9:47 He's 32 and raised $136m in Funding But It's About More Than That with Josh Reeves EP 186:
Disclosure
Reeves: Gusto gives employees a free worldwide plane ticket after one year
“At Gusto, we actually give everyone on their one-year anniversary a free plane ticket anywhere in the world. That expires on their second year anniversary specifically for this reason.”
Josh Reeves Mar 5, 2016 ▶ 19:40 He's 32 and raised $136m in Funding But It's About More Than That with Josh Reeves EP 186:

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Appearances (1)

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He's 32 and raised $136m in Funding But It's About More Than That with Josh Reeves EP 186: Mar 5, 2016 12m
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