Top 22 Parker Conrad Quotes

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.

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

Media organizations are frequently criticized for a heartless approach to the news. Stories that are damaging to a person’s reputation make the front page just as quickly – and many would say even more quickly – as stories that enhance it.

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

When professors expect a few dozen students and hundreds show up, it’s a mixed blessing. While it’s a testament to their popularity, it also means they have to scramble to interview and hire more teaching fellows, schedule rooms, and order lab supplies.

It’s a lot easier to figure out how to scale something that doesn’t feel like it would scale than it is to figure out what is actually gonna work. You’re much better off going after something that will work that doesn’t scale, then trying to figure how to scale it up, than you are trying to figure it all out.

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

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

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

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

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

Lists that segment people into clearly-defined categories are particularly valuable to direct marketers, which can tailor their sales pitch to a particular demographic and, therefore, increase the likelihood of making a sale.

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

The battle over Napster has divided musicians and industry officials.

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.

A good headline is far more than a summary. It has to characterize, in a few brief words, the most important themes and news items of the article it accompanies.

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

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

I was spending all my time at the ‘Crimson’ – like, 70 hours a week – and I didn’t go to class for, like, a year. I failed out of school. I had to leave Harvard, really, halfway through my tenure as the ‘Crimson’ managing editor. It was this incredibly humiliating and shocking experience.

I’ll grab coffee with my wife and daughter and then am in the office around 9 or 10. From there, I usually have about 8 hours of meetings.

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

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.