Parker Conrad

“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.”

“There's a lot of just administrative work that comes along with having employees.”

“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.”

“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 t...”

“If Harvard officials ban the microfridge, it will leave undergraduates without any cooking appliances at all allowed in their rooms.”

“Insurance brokers make way too much money for the value they provide.”

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

“One of the powers of a sit-in is its visibility and potential to mobilize public opinion; the way the protest is reported in the media can have a powerful influence over its eventual success...”

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

“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 sa...”

“Some days you're the fire hydrant, and some days you're the dog.”

“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.”

“Despite the volume of 'junk' mail that students receive each year, companies that have an interest in selling their product to students say direct mailing is a key to their success.”

“The battle over Napster has divided musicians and industry officials.”

“There are those who say the music industry must adapt to a wired world. They point to the decades-long rise in CD prices, even as manufacturing costs came down, and to data that shows Napste...”

“At Wikinvest, which got renamed Sigfig, we were constantly just two or three months away from not being able to make payroll.”

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

“Zenefits is basically a service that manages all of your payroll, benefits, and associated HR details that come along with those. Dealing with new employee onboarding, offer letters, and man...”

“One of the lasting consequences of the unrest of the late 1960s was the removal of adult authority from the lives of undergraduates at many colleges. And, as a consequence, residential commu...”

“A lot of scaling up a company is not very sexy or strategic.”