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Reeves: 40% of US companies faced annual penalties for payroll mistakes
“40% of companies in the U.S. Were making mistakes and getting penalized every year.”
Josh Reeves Mar 18, 2025 ▶ 7:11 From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator
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Gusto delayed public self-serve launch until months after Demo Day
“After demo day, we actually did not launch the product. That was also kind of a non-obvious choice we made. We'll probably talk about the seed round we did, but we actually didn't launch publicly where you could like come up as a stranger who we've never met, …”
Josh Reeves Mar 18, 2025 ▶ 10:57 From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator
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Seibel: Gusto Outperformed Hyped Startups in YC Winter 2012 Batch
“In my batch in winter 12, I, my company was by no means the best investment. Justin was in my batch as well. He raised it uncapped, super hyped, also wasn't the best investment. If you were investing in my batch, you probably wanted to invest in a company call…”
Michael Seibel Mar 7, 2018 ▶ 10:12 Michael Seibel - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
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Reeves: There are about six million US employers across industries
“There's about six million employers in the U.S., and so, you know, if you're going to get to real, real volume in the space, you have to go into many, many industries.”
Josh Reeves Mar 18, 2025 ▶ 10:45 From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator
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Reeves: Gusto pivoted to building a payroll system before starting YC
“So by the time we started YC in January, we were already building a payroll system.”
Josh Reeves Mar 18, 2025 ▶ 5:14 From A Pivot To Building A $9.6 Billion Payroll Company · Y Combinator
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