$9.5B Gusto Founder Went Back to Being an Engineer to Build an AI CoFounder - Edward Kim

About this episode

Today I walk with Edward Kim, co-founder and CTO of Gusto. Edward built Gusto with two Stanford classmates into a $9.5B payroll platform running 300,000 small businesses, made over $1M selling Android apps on the side, and after a decade managing engineers, he's writing code again to ship an AI co-founder for the back office his mom used to run when he was a kid. He gets into why his doctor dad handed him a Paul Graham essay in the car, and the unfairness technical co-founders feel while business co-founders raise the money. We get into: -Making $700K a year selling Android apps after his first startup shut down -Why his doctor dad handing him a Paul Graham essay changed his career -His mom…