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Re: ZenPayroll is now Gusto

#31

Post by edawerd »

localcrisis wrote: post #12

First off, congratulations to the team. This is a big change and I'm sure a huge amount of work went into making this happen. I wonder what this says about the company's focus. They started out focused on payroll, with the BI press release saying they had 20k customers out of millions of small businesses. So obviously a lot more to be done and they are off to a good start. Which raises a few questions: Do they consid…

Gusto co-founder here. By no means do we consider payroll to be finished! This is something that every employer needs and will always be a big (if not the biggest) part of Gusto. One of the main reasons why our benefits offering is so good is that it's built on top of our own payroll offering.

Re: ZenPayroll is now Gusto

#32

Post by coderdude »

darksaints wrote: post #27
edawerd wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gusto co-founder here! We actually changed our name because ZenPayroll no longer adequately described what we bring to our customers. We're not just payroll and payments. Gusto is all about empowering companies to put people first.

I see the MBAs have gotten to you.

What do you mean by that? It's catchy and fun but not really informative or helpful by itself.

Re: ZenPayroll is now Gusto

#33

Post by chipgap98 »

Good for Zen... er Gusto. I interviewed for an engineering internship there when I was in college and really like everyone I talked with. They seemed to have a great culture and to be solving some pretty cool technical problems. I hope things continue to go well for them as they expand into the benefits market.

Re: ZenPayroll is now Gusto

#34

Post by edawerd »

tarr11 wrote: post #22

Yeah, my company has 3 overlapping products now. Zenefits, zenpayroll, and indinero (bookkeeping / accounting). They all offer some sort of employee onboarding and have their hands in payroll to a certain degree. We seem to spend a lot of time syncing our employee records between all 3, it is not great. Of those, I probably need zenefits the least of all of those, and I would consider switching to gusto's service jus…

One of the main benefits of a truly integrated payroll, benefits, and compliance product is that you don't have to worry about the syncing of employee records across these systems. We intentionally wanted to start at the lowest, most fundamental layer (payroll) and build these other pieces into a single product.

Re: ZenPayroll is now Gusto

#35

Post by burnallofit »

tarr11 wrote: post #22

Yeah, my company has 3 overlapping products now. Zenefits, zenpayroll, and indinero (bookkeeping / accounting). They all offer some sort of employee onboarding and have their hands in payroll to a certain degree. We seem to spend a lot of time syncing our employee records between all 3, it is not great. Of those, I probably need zenefits the least of all of those, and I would consider switching to gusto's service jus…

To an employee, the actual benefit offerings are the primary consideration. If one provider had great payroll but so-so benefits, that's not worth a slight reduction in management overhead.

Re: ZenPayroll is now Gusto

#36

Post by forgetsusername »

coderdude wrote: post #32
darksaints wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see the MBAs have gotten to you.

What do you mean by that? It's catchy and fun but not really informative or helpful by itself.

>What do you mean by that?

To some on HN, MBAs are uninformed miscreants who ruin everything. Everything but engineering is a waste of money.

Re: ZenPayroll is now Gusto

#37

Post by tmaly »

edawerd wrote: post #31
localcrisis wrote: post #12

First off, congratulations to the team. This is a big change and I'm sure a huge amount of work went into making this happen. I wonder what this says about the company's focus. They started out focused on payroll, with the BI press release saying they had 20k customers out of millions of small businesses. So obviously a lot more to be done and they are off to a good start. Which raises a few questions: Do they consid…

Gusto co-founder here. By no means do we consider payroll to be finished! This is something that every employer needs and will always be a big (if not the biggest) part of Gusto. One of the main reasons why our benefits offering is so good is that it's built on top of our own payroll offering.

I was curious about the name change in regards to when people hear your name for the first time.

When people hear the name Gusto it does not immediately reveal what it is. When they hear something with the word payroll in it, they can take a guess that it has something to do with payroll. Did you consider this when making the change?

I recently changed the name of my side project to make it more explicit because people just did not get the concept when I tried to explain it.

Re: ZenPayroll is now Gusto

#38

Post by jsprogrammer »

coderdude wrote: post #32
darksaints wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see the MBAs have gotten to you.

What do you mean by that? It's catchy and fun but not really informative or helpful by itself.

Just like the comment it was in response to.

>We're not just payroll and payments. Gusto is all about empowering companies to put people first.

Re: ZenPayroll is now Gusto

#39

Post by seiji »

coderdude wrote: post #32
darksaints wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see the MBAs have gotten to you.

What do you mean by that? It's catchy and fun but not really informative or helpful by itself.

The vague mission statement of "empowering companies to put people first" that could mean literally anything from genocide to running a grocery store.

Re: ZenPayroll is now Gusto

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Post by coderdude »

forgetsusername wrote: post #36
coderdude wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by that? It's catchy and fun but not really informative or helpful by itself.

> What do you mean by that? To some on HN, MBAs are uninformed miscreants who ruin everything. Everything but engineering is a waste of money.

I know. Cheap shots should involve more work, though.
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