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Rippling

Rippling

software
Last discussed Oct 19, 2026

An all-in-one platform for HR, IT, and finance operations that helps companies manage employees, payroll, benefits, and devices.

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Rory O'Driscoll
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Praised: Multi-module compound approach delivering 4x revenue premium vs single-produc... vs: Used as the archetypal compound startup example in contrast to single-point-s...

"If Rippling's selling 10 modules, they're not getting 10 times more than a person selling one — they're getting four times. But they're saying to the end customer: let me make all your pain go away. Here's 10 different modules."

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Sarah Guo
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"Figma, Notion, Rippling — you wouldn't bet on a company hoping that it's going to take four or five years to find the thing."

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Jason Lemkin
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"This week Rippling posted their view as a B2B player of what models they use. They had it all and they said across Rippling they looked at two things that were best for them: Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 medium or something, and they said the rest isn't w..."

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"How are you going to compete with that when Rippling has hoovered up 30, Owner has hoovered up 20, and Revolut has hoovered up 10?"

"We had Rippling last week 70% at a billion. Vanta 63% growth at 300 million ARR."

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Mackenzie Burnett
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Praised: Platform approach enables emergent ecosystems vs: Ambrook takes lessons from Rippling's compound startup model but avoids the d...

"Parker Conrad when he launched Rippling had this idea of the compound startup — this idea that he had to build multiple products and not a single point solution. There's a lot of admiration for Parker and the way that he thought about building tha..."

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Sam Blond
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vs: Parker Conrad started Rippling around 2016 as a more evolved version of the c...

"Matt Planck is now the CRO at Rippling. Jameson Young was CRO at Gong. He's now SVP of something important at Rippling in their sales organization."

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Ryan Petersen
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"I was the first investor in Rippling. Put a big check into that. Did really well."

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Bryant Chou
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Praised: Started with a simple wedge (offer letter generator) and expanded into a full... vs: Used as a strategic analogy for Ploy's growth path

"It really reminds me of Rippling in the early days. I remember the very first thing Parker built was an offer letter generator. But then that becomes an HR system. And then once you have HR, you have auth, and then boom, you're like literally your..."

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Ben Ling
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vs: Founded by Parker Conrad after Zenefits

"Parker — killing it with Rippling and very people are very thrilled to be investors in Rippling. But at the time when he was first raising his first round, he wanted all of the original Zenefits investors to reinvest."

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Miles Clemens
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"I think nobody in the world does that better than Parker Conrad. And so, you know, the first time he outlined the vision, I was like, this is really compelling."

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Jared Friedman
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Used for: HR and employee management systems that serve as systems of record Praised: Strong moat as system of record, database-like functionality that's hard to d... vs: Example of SaaS companies that are safe from AI disruption due to being syste...

"obviously Rippling is obviously huge... things that feel like they are essentially databases or systems of records, things like Rippling feel like they're going to be in a good spot"

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Y Combinator
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"Several years ago, my friend Parker Conrad, founder of Rippling and Zenefits, coined the term compound startup"

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This Week in Startups recommends sponsored

"Rippling is already built on your real-time people and business data. That means Rippling AI pulls metrics from both their data and your CRM into one dashboard."

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"With Rippling AI, you can actually solve business problems. Rippling AI is built on your live global workforce data, giving you full visibility into your business and the ability to take action with AI that executes across departments. Head to rip..."

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Scott Galloway sponsored

"With Rippling AI, you can actually solve them. That's because Rippling AI is built on your live global workforce data, giving you full visibility into your business and the ability to take action with AI that executes across departments."

How I AI sponsored

"Rippling is a unified platform that lets startups run HR, payroll, IT, and finance in one system from day one."

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