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Meet Michael Bitzos, a Staff Engineer on the Core Platform team, who’s turned his innate curiosity into an everyday mission at Rippling 💪 Once focused on purely the technical side of engineering, Michael has grown as a business-minded leader helping launch Rippling's new App Studio. "I’ve also been able to pursue projects on my own, which, I think, is a uniquely Rippling environment," says Michael. "If you see a problem, you’re encouraged to go for it and you can do so because of the open culture." 🌟 Learn more about Michael's journey at the company, and what he thinks makes working at Rippling worthwhile: https://lnkd.in/emHTKn-8

While Clifford Reading might’ve been a formative part of your computer class circa 2000 or so – when Rhonda the iMac was still in her prime – neither one has much business being a part of *your* business today. Old tech is a drag. If it’s still in use, it’s slowing down your employees. And even once it’s retired, it’s hanging over your IT team. They live in dread of figuring out how to get rid of those dang things. Because device disposal is a drag too. A big one. And if you’re anything like a lot of the IT teams we work with, you probably have a stack of old laptops sitting around in your office somewhere. They don’t have to be Rhondas to be a problem. Good news is, that problem is solvable with Device Buyback from Rippling IT. Turn those laptops into cash and compliance, all in one package that quite literally pays for itself. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/exJVm2bJ P.S. And by the way, if anyone does happen to find a Clifford Reading CD, please send it our way. We’ve been looking all over.

🏆 We won! “Mid-size organizations noted that Rippling’s unified approach, which brings HR, payroll, IT, and business-level workforce needs into a single system, helps reduce complexity and improve day-to-day operations,” said Stacey Harris, Sapient Insight Group Chief Research Officer. Download Sapients Insight Group’s HR Systems Survey report to learn how Rippling was recognized as a leading vendor for both SMBs and companies up to 4,999 employees, plus get thoughts from the industry on HR trends for 2026. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eDgXQWYV

What a year! ⭐ 👩💻 Joined Rippling as the first and only member of our Startup Partnerships team under our amazing SVP Adil Syed and managed all of our VC relationships 🏡 moved back to SF after ~4 years in NYC 🪩 Organized an average of 5 (!!) events per month while Sarah Goomar and I pulled double duty during a stretch without a dedicated field events partner. Very grateful to now have the incredible Morgan Faulkner leading the charge. 👯 Grew to 6k LinkedIn followers - aiming for 10k followers next year 🌲 Favorite event we sponsored: YC Alumni Camp Reboot organized by David Hua in the California redwoods -- the most community driven and welcoming event I've ever been to. 📈 VC portfolio updates: Sujith V.'s company Roi was acquired by OpenAI, Henry LeGard's Verisoul raised a Series A 🥳 💕 Met thousands of inspiring founders, VCs, and startup community partners including Anna Sun, Jennifer Yip & Rachel Eizner, Lily Yang, Dasha Shunina, Mahir Kumar Singh, Jessica Shapiro, Gaurav Maken, Betty Wu, Shankar Radhakrishnan, Matt D, Christine Lu Hong, Sky Yang, Peggy Wang, Umesh Khanna, Karim Rahme. Thankful everyday to work with a rockstar Rippling Startups team Sarah Goomar, Kate Swanberg🪽, Morgan Faulkner, Brett Stanton, Shanon Chau, Olivia (., Ramon Garcia, Christopher Haworth, Isabel Markus, Charlie Maher, Jacob Thompson, Julia Murphy, Sarah Hallam, Ankur Bhatt. Grateful for the products, partnerships, and community we've built this year—and excited to do even more together in 2026! 😊

This year’s goal: less busywork, more momentum. Explore the latest Rippling updates built to keep work moving → https://lnkd.in/eh76NMmz

Rippling buys your unwanted computers. Not your 1998 iMac G3, please, to be clear. Rhonda’s a special case. All those company-issued laptops that are just piling up in your server closet, though? Rippling IT's Device Buyback program turns that stack of aging hardware into real money, along with guaranteed Certificates of Destruction to keep you secure and compliant. Less clutter, more budget. It's that simple. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eQMCqzmh

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