Conrad: David Sacks' PR campaign drove Zenefits into the ground
Parker Conrad · How To Build The Future: Parker Conrad · Y Combinator · Jan 10, 2025 · at 21:46
Parker Conrad describes the leadership transition and public PR fallout after David Sacks took over as CEO of Zenefits.
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“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 was, he wasn't just attacking me, he was attacking the company that he was a CEO, the CEO of. And so that, I think that really drove the company into the ground in a way that, you know, I think they could have done quite well had they not”
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