Sankar did not name specific competitor companies by name during the March 2019 interview. He described the competitive landscape broadly, stating that no other company was approaching the market with the same all-in-one pitch that Rippling uses, and that no competitor offered comparable product breadth at the time.
Sankar referenced Zenefits as a prior-company case study rather than a current competitor, noting that Zenefits reached $50 million in ARR in under two years, a figure he cited as evidence of market demand rather than as a current competitor metric. That Zenefits ARR figure was stated by Sankar in the context of describing market opportunity and should be understood as his characterization of a prior company's historical performance, not a figure confirmed by Zenefits.