Parker Conrad Quotes
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Rightly or wrongly, for better or worse, valuation is a very important tool for recruiting - particularly in the markets for software engineering, where the market is really tight.
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A lot of scaling up a company is not very sexy or strategic.
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There's nothing easy about building a company at all. I find it really hard, just painful and difficult, and if you are successful, it's even worse than if you fail.
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There is so much headache and hassle involved in starting a business or running a business.
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Zenefits is basically a service that manages all of your payroll, benefits, and associated HR details that come along with those. Dealing with new employee onboarding, offer letters, and managing that - and we do it for free.
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The battle over Napster has divided musicians and industry officials.
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I tried paying at a restaurant with stock options. It didn't work.
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It feels good to have people who support you and back you and believe in you.
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If Harvard officials ban the microfridge, it will leave undergraduates without any cooking appliances at all allowed in their rooms.
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The only thing I learned is that failure sucks, and you never want to do it. There's not a lot to be said for that particular lesson.
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Both in the short-run and the long-run, college students, collectively, have enormous spending power.
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If you move or get married, that has to be changed with HR, payroll, medical insurance, life insurance, etc. It is a huge administrative headache that requires a full-time staff.