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Rippling’s Parker Conrad: “We raised $500m in one day to survive the SVB collapse”

The Times Tech Podcast

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The Hard Times of Raising Money

It's for sure harder to raise money, although I feel like we were just very lucky to be in a position where we just raised a lot of money in a very short time on pretty good terms. And there are obviously a lot of companies that are going under. There were definitely some years in there where it just felt impossible to hire the engineering talent that needed to hire. But either we've gotten better or it's gotten a little bit easier and maybe some combination of both.

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