Parker Conrad (HR Tech / SaaS) at Rippling — San Francisco, United States
Parker Conrad co-founded Zenefits before being ousted and then founded Rippling in 2016, building the most ambitions compound startup in enterprise software. Rippling unifies HR, IT, and finance operations in a single employee data model, allowing businesses to onboard and manage employees from one platform. Conrad coined the phrase "compound startup" to describe Rippling's strategy of building multiple interconnected products rather than one focused tool.