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• bullish fact_claim Unattributed

  Rippling's already built on your real-time people and business data, obviously. So Rippling AI can pull metrics from both Rippling and your CRM into a meeting ready dashboard. See exactly how close you are to hitting that quota. Break down your revenue by region or sales rep or more, all in just seconds with Rippling AI.

• neutral fact_claim Scott Orn

  so trinet just works rippling has a peo sequoia those are the big ones and so they'll help manage a lot of that

• bullish fact_claim Unattributed

  And now, thanks to Rippling's new PEO option, your employees can likely access better Fortune 500 level benefits for less than other platforms.

• bullish endorsement Unattributed

  Well, Rippling, which I use for my fully remote team over at inside can answer those questions for you. They make it super easy to manage all of your local and remote employees and contractors, whether they work from HQ or Timbuktu. When you hire people in new states, Rippling can automatically register your startup with each state tax agency and keep you compliant with all the different local labor laws. You know, the stuff that no one likes to deal with all that headache. They're there for you

• bullish fact_claim Unattributed

  And now, thanks to Rippling's new PEO option, your employees can likely access better Fortune 500 level benefits for less than other platforms.

• bullish fact_claim Unattributed

  Rippling also lets you onboard your new hires in literally 90 seconds. You can instantly set up their payroll benefits. And of course, apps like Slack and GitHub, you can even ship them a work laptop with all the software and security they need all installed.

• bullish endorsement Unattributed

  We love Rippling because it takes a lot of complexity off our plate.

• bullish endorsement David Friedberg

  Well, Rippling, which I use for my fully remote team over at Inside, can answer those questions for you. They make it super easy to manage all of your local and remote employees and contractors, whether they work from HQ or Timbuktu. When you hire people in new states, Rippling can automatically register your startup with each state tax agency and keep you compliant with all the different local labor laws. You know, the stuff that no one likes to deal with, all that headache, they're there for y

• bullish endorsement Jason Calacanis

  Rippling, which I use for my team at inside can answer those questions easily for you. They make it easy to manage both local and remote employees and contractors, whether they work from HQ or Timbuktu. When you hire in new states, Rippling can automatically register your startup with each state's tax agency and keep you compliant with local labor laws. Rippling lets you onboard new hires in 90 seconds. You can instantly set up payroll benefits and apps like Slack and GitHub, and you can ship th

• mixed assessment Jason Calacanis

  parker conrad had an sec violation against him i'm kind of like on the periphery of it because i like parker conrad i think he's like a cool founder and he's like a super aggressive founder who made a couple of mistakes got an sec claim against him

• bullish prediction Unattributed

  That means they're planning to go public in the next two or three years. So they'll file next year. I'm going to take a guess. Rippling will file in 2026.

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  Founded in 2016, nine years old, nine year old company.

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  you can put in 450 million in primary, which would be, uh, 10% of 16.8 billion would be 1.6 billion. So this is 25, 2.5% dilution for that 450 million coming in. That's nothing.

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  there's a, there are people who believe that company's going public and they want to acquire as many shares as possible. The company doesn't want to create new shares.

• neutral fact_claim Jason Calacanis

  Rippling just raised 450 million in their series G 70, almost $17 billion valuation.

• neutral assessment Unattributed

  They're very similar. And I couldn't even tell you what technology they're trying to steal from the other one. It seems like it's pretty straightforward from a technology, not a knock on either of them. They're fine at what they do. Yeah. But what's the high tech thing that they're doing? They're just keeping track of everybody's payroll. It doesn't really seem like that convoluted or like cutting edge.

• bearish fact_claim Unattributed

  According to Deal, Rippling fired Keith O'Brien, paid him a termination fee, then rehired him and has agreed to help him with his legal expenses relating to the Rippling versus Deal saga. So Deal is saying that's very unusual. It's very unusual for a company to fire someone for cause and then rehire them during a legal proceeding and help them pay some of their legal fees.

• bearish fact_claim Unattributed

  Deal has counters sued. They argue Rippling was also attempting to spy on them.

• bearish fact_claim Unattributed

  Rippling has sued Deal, alleging that their rivals stole trade secrets, conducted tortious interference and unfair competitive practices. Basically, they're saying a Deal employee covertly worked at Rippling and passed Rippling data over back to Deal.

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  payroll, fintech kind of companies. They help small businesses and startups to handle and manage and pay their teams.

• bearish criticism Unattributed

  if someone who was probably at the time a consultant which is why rippling pointed that out um went through the customer onboarding flow as a test got some stuff that said here's how to use deal and then gave that that that to me is so low grade i would say okay that ceo should buy the other ceo drick the deal spine the the rippling allegations about deal spine were a magnitude higher

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  they're not denying the core allegation which is they had this employee pose as a customer take things from deal and then show them to rippling which they then use

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  rippling responds and says these are allegations of a junior consultant who later became a full-time employee reviewing non-confidential materials available to thousands of deal customers quote we're looking into it

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  deal was accused by competitor rippling of essentially hiring a spy inside of rippling's operations exfiltrating information and essentially being very very poorly behaved and when this lawsuit dropped it was essentially i think the startup equivalent of like a bombing raid like it just was causing explosions all over the place

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  the person who is doing the Series G knows about this lawsuit they know all about it they just don't know the response

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  the new allegations from Rippling is that there's other companies that have been harmed in similar ways

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  I was surprised that an investor would try to scupper Rippling's own round and then perhaps hope that that wouldn't get out.

• bearish fact_claim Unattributed

  Around April 23rd, 2025, just two days before the financing was scheduled to close, this is their Series G, a quote, tier one investor quote, in a position to know about Deal's response to Rippling contacted a very senior partner at Rippling's Series G investor. That person claimed Deal would quote, soon be hitting back with material information against Rippling in this litigation and urged the investor to delay until Deal's response came out.

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  Rippling writes in its new suit that Deal was regularly bragging about new hires bringing secrets from other companies. That I think the CFO said that he maintains quote spies at other companies and that Rippling was behaving poorly.

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  Rippling is an HR tech and payroll giant. They raised a Series G at about a $17 billion valuation. Deal in the same space was worth at $12 billion.

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  he um is using rippling which is a payment service like an hr provider he is using svb's rails and had to move those rails over to jp morgan he said in his tweet storm but that payroll didn't go out so every rippling customer didn't hit payroll this week and they're going to hit it next week uh or maybe early next week i guess so you this is where like second order effects and third order effects you know are hard to predict

• bearish criticism Unattributed

  I just put them in like the fifth slot now because I think you get a better deal economically.

• bearish fact_claim Unattributed

  they're facing serious competition.

• bearish criticism Unattributed

  it's a bit of a factory.

• bearish criticism Unattributed

  all a better option for founders now than Y Combinator.

• neutral assessment Unattributed

  So who's Roloff speaking to? He's speaking to LPs. I think he's doing LP management in this discussion of, hey, you are an LP in venture capital, but we also have this Sequoia Heritage kind of Sequoia fund.

• bullish prediction Unattributed

  Which is going to get, have higher IRR? It's probably going to be Sequoia because they're trying to keep it more boutique-y.

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  Sequoia is trying to keep the industry small, focused, and elite. Because that's how they made all their big wins, right? You don't want to go chasing. So they're trying to keep their fund size the same so they can have that IRR. They're not trying to do what Andreessen is doing, which is making giant funds that, you know, revert to the mean and have lower return profiles, but more money, more capital under management.

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  So, you know, if you want to, like, send people their laptop and, you know, make sure you understand what they're doing with their computers and all that stuff, yeah, all that is kind of in this.

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  But, you know, they do HR, but it's more than just payroll. It's not just ADP. They'll also do, like, IT services.

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  That's why I felt like their 14.4X multiple felt a little bit low because, you know, Rippling is, you know, a $500 million valuation difference in roughly half the revenue.

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  But they both have essentially the same $17 billion valuation.

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  According to reporting that I could find, it's much smaller than Deal. But I don't really want to index too much on that because these are companies that handle a lot of payroll.

• bullish prediction Unattributed

  They're both companies at scale, Jason, that could go public at will. So we look forward to those in 2029, I guess.

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  The Rippling ARR number was 570 million earlier in 2025.

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  Deal raised $300 million. ... It's a Series E led by Ribbit, A16Z, and Coatoo. And the company just reached a $1.2 billion yearly run rate in September. So they had their first nine-figure month. And this is really awesome. They essentially had 15% to 17% EBITDA margins. So growing well, way above IPO scale and adjusted profitability.

• bullish endorsement Chamath Palihapitiya

  Rippling can help you manage all of your HR as well as all of your IT in one seamless product. That means you can get payroll, health insurance, compliance, 401k, all that's going to be done. But also all the IT suffering and pain that we all go through. You can instantly order the computer for this employee, create their user accounts across all of your systems, whether it's Gmail, GitHub, Slack, and then you give them a simple single sign-on for all their apps with one click. How amazing is th

• bullish fact_claim David Sacks

  And then if you look at Ripley, you know, half of that employee base is X benefits people. So he's done it again.

• bullish assessment Max Altman

  Parker had an interesting knack of on calls with customers. So he's like, hey, let's do a customer discovery call. What do they need so we can figure out what we're building next? And we get off the call together. And then one time he was just like, I know they said that they actually wanted X and Y. That's not what they want. They want Z, but they've never even seen Z before. So we're going to go build Z and I promise you this is actually what they want. And that's how he's built a lot of this

• bullish endorsement Max Altman

  Parker is, and I know he gets, you know, his ego's been ablated a lot recently, but he is like the best guy at product and sales that I've ever worked for or really like kind of learned from.

• bullish endorsement Ben Braverman

  Like, not that many people know HR, like the back of their hand, and also know Silicon Valley best practices, and can build a world class engineering team. Parker Conrad was that person kind of sent from the heavens to do it.

VentureSignalScore 43.9/100 for rippling-ai, composed from 2 of 4 components (emerging formula), discounted ×0.85 for 50% signal coverage