RIPPLING

I got fired from my own company. Most people would have given up. I started a better company six months later. Failure is information, not identity.

The compound startup thesis is simple: when all your systems share the same data, automation becomes trivial. When they're separate, it's impossible.

When you hire someone in Rippling, they get their payroll, benefits, laptop, software access, and corporate card in one click. Try doing that with five different vendors.

Every SaaS company thinks they need to be the best at one thing. We think integration IS the thing. Good enough across ten categories beats best-in-class in one.

Zenefits taught me everything about what not to do. Rippling is the version built by someone who already made every possible mistake.

We launched corporate cards because we realized our payroll system already knew every employee and their spending policies. The data was already there — we just built a card.