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“Startups are somewhere between completely impossible and very, very, very, very hard.” That's Parker Conrad, CEO of Rippling, on the first episode of Long Strange Trip. Parker's got one hell of a story. Violently fired by David Sacks from Zenefits. Character assassinated in the press. Everyone (including me) thought...

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