Everett Randle
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 16 Jul
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I think like what it what it came down to and something that I learned over my entire career slowly, like again I started in PE and so like the idea of venture was so foreign when I was
Uh shout out capitalism.
Uh wait like the the idea of venture was so foreign when I was first coming into the industry that I really like growth was like felt safe.
It felt like what I was good at.
And I've just learned over the the however long I've been in the industry that um
Like where I felt the most fulfillment, where I felt the most joy, is actually the investments in the relationships I've built, someone like a Sean Henry or even like a Parker and Matt at Rippling, where it's like you get in even at the early series B, I think there's this like line where like if you can get in and build a relationship and be on the board with a founder.
When they're still figuring everything out, when it's still like the primordial soup phase of a company, there's just all this like there's a deep relationship and all this context that you build, both with a founder, with the team, and like the underlying organization that you're working with, that just like if you get in later, you just like can't go back in time and get that same amount of relationship building and context.
So
Yeah, I mean, I I think the Rippling story and like where I think where a compound startup can really, really work um is is like one, yeah, there's there's this fat build in the beginning where you need to build all this platform architecture because the whole idea is like
You need to build some form of platform architecture that's going to make building each point solution that you end up bundling faster.
Like if it's just gonna take the same amount of time that it would any other startup to build each product, then there's kind of no synergy
for building the compound startup, like they all need to interact and be built on the same platform.
I think the other key learning from Rippling is that a lot of the products that they were that that they've built and that they sell are not like I don't want to like say commodity in like a negative like they don't matter way, but they're just not these like really it's not Figma, you know?
Like it's not like a designer that's like, I'm not gonna use like off-brand Figma.
I have to use Figma, like it's my lifeblood, it's my everything.
When you have like an application, you know, an applicant tracking system or like a time in attendance thing or like employee reviews, that there's so much value in in the integration of data with like employee reviews being integrated into your HR suite.
rather than just having like the nicest UI or having the product that feels the best.
And so like the value of having a bundled suite and a compound startup
Is really powerful when the actual products don't have to be the complete bleeding edge best of breed.
They can be like very good, but they don't have to look the absolute nicest.
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