Founder Profile
Parker Conrad
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Parker Conrad?
Parker Conrad is a founder of Rippling (People Center, Inc.), which was founded in 2016 with Prasanna Sankar.
- Company founded
- Rippling (People Center, Inc.)
- Founded
- 2016
- Co-founders
- Prasanna Sankar
Background
Parker Conrad studied at Harvard. He co-founded Zenefits in 2013 and resigned as its CEO in February 2016 amid a compliance scandal over insurance licensing.
Founding Story
Parker Conrad co-founded Rippling in 2016 and has been its CEO since. He has grown it into a company with roughly $1 billion in annual recurring revenue and a $16.8 billion valuation (May 2025). Conrad promotes the 'compound startup' approach, which means building many integrated products at once on shared infrastructure. He has led Rippling through the 2023 Silicon Valley Bank failure, the 2026 launch of Rippling AI and the 2025 legal fight with Deel. Parker Conrad was born in 1980.
Sources
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- Rippling: Series G fundraising and tender offer (Rippling (People Center, Inc.))
- TechCrunch: Rippling raises $450M at a $16.8B valuation (Rippling (People Center, Inc.))