When professors expect a few dozen students and hundreds show up, it's a mixed blessing. While it's a testament to their popularity, it also means they have to scramble to interview and hire more teaching fellows, schedule rooms, and order lab supplies.

Parker Conrad

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

Parker Conrad

I'm too old to understand Snapchat.

Parker Conrad

Both in the short-run and the long-run, college students, collectively, have enormous spending power.

Parker Conrad

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.

Parker Conrad

I tried paying at a restaurant with stock options. It didn't work.

Parker Conrad

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

Parker Conrad

The reality is, for small businesses, there really aren't HR systems. Small businesses are rolling their own.

Parker Conrad

I'm not going to run my business on the basis of quarterly numbers.

Parker Conrad

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

Parker Conrad

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

Parker Conrad

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

Parker Conrad

I'll grab coffee with my wife and daughter and then am in the office around 9 or 10. From there, I usually have about 8 hours of meetings.

Parker Conrad

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

Parker Conrad

The only thing I learned is that failure sucks, and you never want to do it. There's not a lot to be said for that particular lesson.

Parker Conrad

It feels good to have people who support you and back you and believe in you.

Parker Conrad

When professors expect a few dozen students and hundreds show up, it's a mixed blessing. While it's a testament to their popularity, it also means they have to scramble to interview and hire more teaching fellows, schedule rooms, and order lab supplies.

Parker Conrad

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 say even more quickly - as stories that enhance it.

Parker Conrad

Journalists play God when they decide for their readers when to hide information from them. Frequently, those choices are unavoidable.

Parker Conrad

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 communities developed much as students themselves wanted them to.

Parker Conrad

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.

Parker Conrad