parkerconrad

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by parkerconrad 6y ago
One thing that's changed a lot in the past decade -- when I left my first startup, SigFig, in 2012 (after 7 years of slow, grinding failure -- company has since had a renaissance let by my cofounder, who stayed), it was really unclear
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by parkerconrad 10y ago
Congrats Garry -- I just wanted to chime in with others to say that Garry was an incredible investor in our seed round -- always helpful, and has been very loyal in good times and bad. If you can work with him I highly recommend it.
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by parkerconrad 11y ago
ADP has for years, and still does, allow bookkeepers, accountants, and HR services firms similar to Zenefits to access client accounts via 3rd-party administrative logins that clients themselves set up in their payroll. The way this works i
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by parkerconrad 11y ago
Our view of this is that growth is not inconsistent with improving the service - and, actually, quite the opposite, our growth is what gives us the ability to solve a lot of the challenges in this industry. This is particularly relevant in
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by parkerconrad 13y ago
Algentis companies are our favorite kind of client. We'll save you $2,000 / year per employee if you switch from Algentis (you won't have to pay any more algentis fees) and you don't have to change your existing health i
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by parkerconrad 13y ago
We love Zenpayroll, but, sadly, no official relationship despite the name.
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by parkerconrad 13y ago
A different way to look at this -- someone who believes in the affordable care act, and wants to build companies that will help this law succeed.
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by parkerconrad 13y ago
Not right now -- but something we'd like to do down the line. Am curious what you'd want / how you'd use it. Feel free to reach out, parker [at] zenefits dot com
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by parkerconrad 14y ago
Wow, I am a big fan of bloom health (zenefits cofounder here), and would love to meet / talk! (you can reach me at parker [at] zenefits.com It's small-group right now, each company is its own group. Right now we are CA only but plan to expa
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by parkerconrad 14y ago
401K is in invite-only alpha right now. There are a few vendors we work with -- Schwab, The online 401k Company, Sharebuilder, and Vanguard. In practice, these are the best options for small businesses out there. We don't get paid by 401K c
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by parkerconrad 14y ago
Yeah, the problem with TriNet and other PEOs, though, is that they cost thousands of dollars per employee per year -- while Zenefits is free. They do more than we do, of course, but a lot of small companies only need someone for benefits ad
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by parkerconrad 14y ago
Wow, thanks Hacker News! (One of the Zenefits Co-founders here). One quick thing to point out -- we are actually YC W13, not w12 (small slip-up from TechCrunch on this point).