Parker Conrad

I don't know anything about Amazon's culture; I've never worked there.

— Parker Conrad

There is so much headache and hassle involved in starting a business or running a business.

— Parker Conrad

I was spending all my time at the 'Crimson' - like, 70 hours a week - and I didn't go to class…

— Parker Conrad

There's nothing easy about building a company at all. I find it really hard, just painful and difficult, and if you are…

— Parker Conrad

Journalists play God when they decide for their readers when to hide information from them. Frequently, those choices are unavoidable.

— Parker Conrad

There's a lot of just administrative work that comes along with having employees.

— Parker Conrad

A good headline is far more than a summary. It has to characterize, in a few brief words, the most important themes…

— Parker Conrad

College students typically receive marketing offers in the mail from upwards of a hundred companies each year.

— Parker Conrad

There are those who say the music industry must adapt to a wired world. They point to the decades-long rise in CD…

— Parker Conrad

I tried paying at a restaurant with stock options. It didn't work.

— Parker Conrad

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act indemnifies Internet Service Providers (ISP) such as Harvard from copyright abuses committed over their computer networks.

— Parker Conrad

Zenefits is basically a service that manages all of your payroll, benefits, and associated HR details that come along with those. Dealing…

— Parker Conrad

One of the powers of a sit-in is its visibility and potential to mobilize public opinion; the way the protest is reported…

— Parker Conrad

It's a lot easier to figure out how to scale something that doesn't feel like it would scale than it is to…

— Parker Conrad

With a lot of the things that seem scalable, you will find bottlenecks you never imagined that you suddenly need to find…

— Parker Conrad

A lot of scaling up a company is not very sexy or strategic.

— Parker Conrad

I'm not going to run my business on the basis of quarterly numbers.

— Parker Conrad

Some days you're the fire hydrant, and some days you're the dog.

— Parker Conrad

If Harvard officials ban the microfridge, it will leave undergraduates without any cooking appliances at all allowed in their rooms.

— Parker Conrad

It feels good to have people who support you and back you and believe in you.

— Parker Conrad

When professors expect a few dozen students and hundreds show up, it's a mixed blessing. While it's a testament to their popularity,…

— Parker Conrad

Lists that segment people into clearly-defined categories are particularly valuable to direct marketers, which can tailor their sales pitch to a particular…

— Parker Conrad

If you move or get married, that has to be changed with HR, payroll, medical insurance, life insurance, etc. It is a…

— Parker Conrad

The reality is, for small businesses, there really aren't HR systems. Small businesses are rolling their own.

— Parker Conrad

The way we designed self-driving payroll, it ends payroll as an independent system that you're entering information in by hand.

— Parker Conrad