Danny Fortson: Is there a story that you heard through the grapevine or in your travels over the last two weeks where you're like, that is the craziest thing that came out of all of this madness? I mean, I think I heard many of the same stories that you did. And certainly, I feel like a bunch of our investors helped us over that weekend to make sure that we were in a good position come Monday morning. That's it for me this week. You can find me as ever at sunday hyphentimes.co.uk and pick up an actual physical paper on the Sunday.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Parker Conrad, founder and chief executive of Rippling, to talk about getting caught in the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (3:30), receiving a call at 5:30 am (8:30), how wide the SVB blast radius was (11:00), moving $130m to JP Morgan in three hours (13:45), raising $500m in a day (17:00), why some people still didn’t get paid (23:40), the growing vulnerabilities of regional banks (30:20), the importance of SVB to tech (32:30), Conrad's experience at Zenefits (37:15), why automating things with software is harder than it seems (42:30), and operating in a slowing economy and tighter funding environment (44:40).
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