Found: Has Rippling won? with Parker Conrad from Rippling

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🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

HR software is big, big business. And no one understands that better than Parker Conrad the CEO and co-founder of Rippling, a global HR company that offers global payroll, onboarding, time tracking, benefits management and more. This week, Equity is bringing you an episode of our sister show, Found. The Found crew talk with Conrad about what goes into building a leading HR tech company—from what it’s like building out features companies love, to dealing with fierce competition in this ever growing landscape. Conrad also gets into the power imbalance that can arise between VCs and founders and the drama at his previous company that inspired him to build Rippling.

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0:00.0	This episode is presented by Mercury, the FinTech that simplifies how more than 200,000 businesses operate.
0:07.0	If the future of Work Trend proved anything, it said HR software is big, big business. Our guests today, who you
0:14.7	may or may not have heard of, can speak to what goes into building a leading HR tech company.
0:18.8	From what it's like building out features companies love to dealing with fierce competition in this ever growing landscape.
0:27.0	You're listening to Found, Tech Runches Podcast that brings you the stories behind the startups.
0:31.0	And today we're talking to Parker Conrad, the CEO and
0:33.7	co-founder of Rippling a global HR company that offers global payroll,
0:37.4	onboarding, time tracking, and much more. I'm Becca's Kutak and I'm joined by
0:41.8	my fabulous co-host
0:43.6	Dominic Madori Davis and of course before we get into our
0:46.2	conversation with Parker we have our two truths and a lie so listen carefully
0:49.4	to see which one of these statements isn't true is it that Parker is a serial founder? That rippling intentionally
0:54.4	started with no one on its operations team or that Parker thinks founders should stick to doing what they love.
0:59.5	Ooh, listeners, you all have to keep listening and I will add that there is some fun stuff toward the end of the conversation you are not going to want to miss.
1:06.7	But before we dive into that conversation with Parker, just a reminder to rate and review the show you can do so wherever you are already listening to this
1:13.5	episode so it should be super easy on your end and it is very helpful on ours. So without
1:18.8	further ado, let's get to our conversation with Parker. Hey Parker, how's it going?
1:27.0	How's it going?
1:29.0	Fine, thanks, how are you?
1:30.0	I can't complain, hanging in there.
1:32.0	Thanks for coming on the show.
1:33.4	Yeah, thanks for having me.
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