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.
To some on HN, MBAs are uninformed miscreants who ruin everything. Everything but engineering is a waste of money.
Really though, I don't have anything against what he said, nor against MBAs (...well, some MBAs maybe). It was just poking fun at vacuous sounding corporatespeak.
>We're not just payroll and payments. Gusto is all about empowering companies to put people first.
This could mean anything or nothing. But he knew that already
Also, the prefix "zen" is being a little bit abused these days.
They should have renamed to Zenefits! Wait...