# $10B Gusto CEO: "Imagine Describing Your Idea The 10,000th Time, Will You Still Be Excited?"

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Published: 2026-06-02T13:00:00+00:00
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Three friends. One closet. A company now valued at $10 billion, serving over 400,000 small businesses. Josh Reeves is the co-founder and CEO of Gusto, the payroll, benefits, and HR platform now valued at roughly $10 billion. But he didn't grow up dreaming of building HR software — nobody does. The son of two teachers who were the first in their families to go to college, Josh studied electrical engineering at Stanford during the dot-com collapse, when the conventional wisdom was that the int...

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