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How To Build The Future: Parker Conrad

Parker Conrad is co-founder & CEO of Rippling, an all-in-one HR, Finance, and IT software company valued at $13.5 billion. A founder of two unicorns, he's had one of the more dramatic startup journeys in recent years.

In this episode, Parker shares his origin story, the mistakes he made at his first two companies, how AI is changing the game, and why he thinks the future will be defined by "compound" software startups.

Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two-Time Founder

Rujul Zaparde knows a thing or two about resilience and learning from failure. He dropped out of college to build FlightCar, worked as a PM at Airbnb, and later as a visiting partner at YC. Today, his company Zip has raised $370M and is valued at $2.2B.

Rujul joined us for a fireside discussion on hard-earned lessons scaling a business from zero, and how founders can use first-principles thinking to better approach building a startup.

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