Parker Conrad
12 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 6 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 25, 2019 by Kevin Hale · said 16 times in 5 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by Michael Seibel (8), Garry Tan (4), Geoff Ralston (2), Kevin Hale (1), Harj Taggar (1)
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2026 5 mentions in 1 episode
2022 7 mentions in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Parker Conrad, oldest first
Jul 25, 2019 positive
Nov 1, 2022 positive
Conrad: Rippling employs around 50 former founders as product GMs
“Usually we love hiring former founders to run specific product lines and build them and really run them as general managers. We've been, you know, really successful at recruiting. I think we have now probably around 50 former founders that work at Rip Lane.”
Jan 10, 2025 negative
Conrad: Investor attention spans change faster than companies can be built
“Investors sort of shift their view of what's gonna work every six to nine months. And I was like, geez, it takes It takes years to build a company in these spaces. And so there's no way, you know, the attention span that investors have on this stuff is always …”
Jan 10, 2025 negative
Conrad: Consumer startup success is random, driving founders toward B2B
“I think a lot of consumer businesses end up being kind of random that, you know, whether things sort of work or not feels like very much outside the control of the company.
It's one of the reasons I,
Hate consumer businesses, and I think a lot of entrepreneurs…”
Jan 10, 2025 negative
Jan 10, 2025 negative
Conrad: David Sacks' PR campaign drove Zenefits into the ground
“David really sort of He hired a sort of a comms person that he works with a lot, this guy named Lanny Davis, and they just focused on like attacking me, like over and over and over again for like six months, and it became this huge thing. And David, well, he w…”
Jan 10, 2025
Conrad was kicked out of Harvard before returning to graduate
“So when I was in college, I started working on the newspaper there and got just, like, really into it and spent all my time at the newspaper, didn't go to class, and they didn't like that very much so I ended up getting kicked out and then came back and gradua…”
Jan 10, 2025 negative
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Jan 10, 2025 negative
Parker Conrad: Founders should not fundraise until investors send blank-valuation term sheets
“People should not spend any time trying to optimize for like a fundraising outcome. And like, you should just basically wait until You're getting investors that are emailing you term sheets that are signed with like a blank for the valuation. And they say, jus…”
Jan 10, 2025 positive
Conrad: Compound software suites solve organizational problems better than point solutions
“A lot of the sort of deeper problems within organizations can't really be solved by very narrow point solution software products. And that if you can build A whole suite of really seamlessly interoperable applications. You can build much better products for bu…”