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every year anyone Harj Taggar 19Michael Seibel 9Gustaf Alströmer 6Josh Reeves 5Jared Friedman 2Aaron Levie 2Tikhon Bernstam 1Pejman Nozad 1Elad Gil 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Gusto comes up
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:33 Aaron Levie Like you don't really want to compete with Gusto because Gusto is still a modern, really good payroll system. 2 times in the scene
From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:52 Harj Taggar I'm Harj Tagger, one of the partners here at Y Combinator, and today I'm very excited to be joined by Josh Reeves, co-founder and CEO of Gusto. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:46 Harj Taggar Um, you actually applied to Y Combinator with a very different idea to Gusto. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:38 Harj Taggar Have been getting paid through Gusto for over a decade at this point.
- ▶ 16:25 Josh Reeves Um, well, Kevin is a friend from college, and Instagram, I mean, he's an investor in Augusto, so, you know, it was fun to talk to him about some of the scaling stuff, but actually, I think, ah, you know, you know this more than anyone,…
- ▶ 18:08 Josh Reeves So some of the first similarities are, like, the benefits team at Gusto started as, like, a small team of five people, you know, with the same dynamic as when we were just five people, and the painful part was it meant we had to pull five… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:57 Josh Reeves So I think when you're really, really early, you know, you gotta look at, like, the market, and, like, if, and this wasn't the case for Gusto, like, someone has, like, 90% market share, that's definitely, like, trickier, right?
- ▶ 21:17 Harj Taggar Very actively involved in the company, and every time I see you, it's very clear that all three of you are very, like, pumped and excited to work on the company and with each other. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:47 Harj Taggar Um, how, how do you think about AI impacting both Gusto's business and the product, but then also Gusto the organization? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:51 Harj Taggar Final question for me, just, um, you know, you're, you're past the first decade of Gusto into the second decade. 4 times in the scene
Vibe Coding Is The Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:23 Harj Taggar My feeling is that many of the most successful companies, I would say, Stripe, Gusto are just two that really spring to my mind, as ones that really heavily leaned into the, actually, we just want people who are really productive with the…
How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:30 Jared Friedman And, um, a great example of this is Gusto, which makes payroll software. 2 times in the scene
Simple Products That Became Big Companies – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:32 Michael Seibel I remember, you know, when Gusto, um, went through YC, because they were actually in, in my second batch in, in winter 12. 7 times in the scene
Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:43 Gustaf Alströmer Let's think of a B to B company, Gusto. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:49 Gustaf Alströmer So even if I would pay for Gusto on an annual basis, which they don't do, measuring the activity I use in Gusto on a regular basis, let's say bi-weekly or monthly, is, is the way to figure out if people are actually using the product. 2 times in the scene
Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:19 Elad Gil We, we do, we would have used Gusto for payroll because we were using ADP and paychecks, and we kept switching because it was a bad experience.
- ▶ 45:35 Pejman Nozad The very first line, if you see all those companies are YC companies, um, you know, Dropbox, Gusto, Dodash, Mubox, and many others, and, and the idea is just investing very early, um, and, and we are actually very much, um, founders and…
Michael Seibel - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:29 Michael Seibel Um, if you were investing in my batch, you probably wanted to invest in a company called Gusto. 2 times in the scene
The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:48 Tikhon Bernstam So I've been, um, I'm so far invested in like Cruz, which just sold a GM, uh, uh, Gusto lend up, um, checker optimizely, uh, Reddit, um, things like that.