Rippling

Ambitious: The goal of the company is not just another payroll shop or any HR product shop. It's to build a global operating system for running companies.

Solid growth history. Rarely will you see SaaS businesses growing consistently for years. Top 0.1 percentile SaaS growth.

No short of problems to solve. You can build a product in the HR-fintech area and move on to a completely different product.

Fast-paced. They truly mean it.

No politics. Surprisingly, despite the company scaling to ~3k headcount now.

Parker and CxOs are no-bullshit people.

• WLB used to be a concern. It got much better, but it's not a rest-and-vest place.

• Most big companies have a spongy buffer space around you. It takes effort to impact and effort to get noticed, positive or negative. Rippling does not have that. So, it's not for everyone.