We've gotten so used to having a stack of SaaS to manage different flows, that is has become the new norm. Instead having the whole employee lifecyle in one tool is a gamechanger and allows you to focus on the more important stuff.
How much of your People team's time actually goes to people?
SelectRow brought HR, payroll, benefits, and compliance into one place with @deel's PEO, so their team can focus on employees and clients.
This is our second major partnership after Arsenal. Both tell the same story: elite organizations trust us to power their operations at scale. So impressive! 🥰
From the Bay to the World 🌎
Deel is proud to be the Official HR + Payroll Partner of @warriors, @Valkyries, @ChaseCenter and @gleagueWarriors.
Deel After Dark! Exciting! ✨
One night. One stage.
On October 8th, Deel After Dark is taking over San Francisco for the #SFTechWeek gala with immersive experiences and a headline set from @JonasBlue. 🎧
We're keeping a few other things under wraps... you'll have to be there to see them. 👀
Attendance is limited. Request your spot on @partiful: partiful.com/e/XoCAdDroW1gxp…
I have been using Sonnet 5 for most of my prototyping work, since it gave me a nice balance of token spend and output. Curious to try Sonnet 5.5, new month = new tokens! 🎉
Deel has little moments of seasonal delight, like this Oktoberfest pretzel throwing you can do on app.deel.com. Shoutout to our Delight team for creating moments like this 💜
So log in to your Deel web account, have some fun and see if you can beat my high score! 🥨🍻
Day 2 of #ShiftUX: Abby Covert asked "How can we shape our tools?"
Figma beat Sketch through collaboration.
Now AI has us all yapping solo to a buddy that always agrees. Tools won't set us up to collaborate, so we have to.
Can every sprint be a hackathon? 🤝
Every time I see those growth numbers it blows my mind. Truly something special and a great talk!
EXCLUSIVE: The Sales Machine Behind $17.3B Deel
Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (@shuooo)
$1M → $100M → $1B → $1.5B+ ARR
I sat down with Shuo in the South of France to break down the *sales machine* behind one of tech’s fastest-growing companies.
@deel stats:
› $1.5B+ in revenue
› $17.3B valuation (Ribbit, Coatue, a16z)
› 40,000+ customers
› 15 acquisitions
› Launched Akai, its AI agent platform
(Rumors a crazy new ai product launching soon 👀)
Deel added >$140M ARR in 90 days without increasing headcount by automating~600 Full Time Employees' equivalent in work with Akai
Shuo co-founded Deel alongside Alex Bouaziz (@Bouazizalex), Co-Founder & CEO, in 2019. They built Deel as a global company from day 1. Today, the company helps businesses hire, manage & pay teams around the world.
We also get into:
› Why Shuo thinks founders simply aren't selling enough
› Building & incentivizing a remote sales organization across 120 countries
› How an MIT-trained robotics engineer became CRO
› Shuo and Alex's founder dynamic, going global from day one
› What she's learned from James Dyson & Jeff Bezos
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Shuo Wang, Co-Founder & CRO at Deel
(00:41) How Deel went from $100M to $1B ARR in 3 years
(02:43) Why Deel went global from day one
(03:36) Who uses Deel? From ElevenLabs to Chanel
(04:16) Hot take
(05:15) Why sales is really about systems
(06:18) How to build a winning remote sales team
(07:48) Going global with Snoop Dogg
(08:34) How Shou & Alex divide roles
(09:23) The founder who inspired Shuo
(10:24) The Bezos mindset
(11:36) NEW Hot take
It always great to hear directly from our customers!
Payroll here. HRIS there. An accountant on call.
That was @cryptio_co's old HR stack.
Deel replaced it with one system. Their VP of People calls it "a world of difference."
Reflecting on day 1 from Shift UX conference and it's clear: our job is to stay human-centered while technology pushes us the other way.
Research matters. Showing up matters. And we can't do it alone. Things are changing for everyone, so lets support each other.
#ShiftUX2026
Attended Shift UX (@RosenfeldMedia's 1st UX conf) last week. Best part: they paused the program for group sensemaking panels.
It helped to unpack what we'd just learned, together. Forces you to think, not just absorb.
More conferences need this!
#uxconference #shiftux2026
Important yearly check to do, so you stay competitive with employee benefits ❤️
Pretty mind blowing numbers thanks to Akai, I love how this was not even intended as an external product initially. But our problems are not unique, every company has manual processes that can benefit from this easy automation solution ✨
EXCITED TO LAUNCH: Akai (akai.run)
Deel added >$140M ARR in 90 days without increasing headcount by automating~600 Full Time Employees' equivalent in work with Akai.
Akai was an internal tool to automate our painfully repetitive operations in Finance, HR, Accounts Payable, and Compliance, etc. We never intended to make this a product.
But we watched revenue per employee grow from $130K to $215K
We built >8k agents that do the work of ~600 employees
It had such a dramatic impact on our business that today we are launching it for everyone.
How it works: Say you're automating payment reconciliation:
1. Record your screen while manually matching a messy transaction and Akai will capture your screen, voice, server requests
2. Akai will see that you pulled unformatted wire transfer info from an archaic bank portal, put it in some excel sheet, checked NetSuite invoices, payment history, and put a ticket on Zendesk
3. Akai reads between the lines and build a workflow + steps + conditional guardrails. It learns tacit edge cases, like resolving malformed invoice references without you writing a single regex
4. Simply connect NetSuite, your ledger, Zendesk, PSPs, and even legacy bank portals with zero API access
5. Run the workflow and tell it what to adjust in plain English: "strip slashes on wire memos and auto-apply partial payments." It adapts instantly
6. Once it works for you, add 100s of colleagues. Your entire payment ops team forks and extends the workflow for new PSPs, secondary ledgers, or regional settlement rules
7. We automated 85% of our payment reconciliation end to end, eliminating 500+ hours of soul-crushing manual grunt work every single week.
Claude Code/Codex can't do this in multiplayer mode. Every person rebuilds the same skill from scratch in their own way.
Deel built Akai to:
1. Understand backend operations edge cases (it had to work for our 7000 person team first)
2. Collaborative across 1000s of employees
3. Self-Learning from millions of runs
4. Optimises cost and gets cheaper every run
We're so confident that we're announcing an Automation Guarantee:
If our engineers can't automate a thousand of hours of work in your first 30 days, you get a full refund.
Book a demo: akai.run if you're an exec at a company with hundreds of employees
You can still apply to the best job on the planet, from anywhere!
When @realdrbombay started, HR was a mess. Now everything’s covered with Deel—taxes, compliance, even brain freezes. 🥶
Apply to be @SnoopDogg’s International Ice Cream Taster today @ deel.com/snoop
Designing for AI interactions? I can highly recommend the great collection seen here: shapeof.ai/
The site has an overview of many patterns that show how AI interactions can be made clear to the user. Definitely one of my go-to sites.
#AIDesign #AIUXPatterns
Always a delight when your daily tools get quality of life updates. @figma introduced tab grouping and project folder structures in their desktop app.
Relatively small changes, that make a huge difference organizing my files. Love it! 🥰
I'm really proud that @deel offers these kind of give backs and that as employees we can vote to support our favorite cause.
You can announce your values, or you can live them.
We asked our team where Deel should give back. They chose @TBBforTalent and @technovation 🙌
Beyond the monetary donation, they also volunteered their own time to these organizations.
Always proud of our Deelers!
I am so used to a fixed pay day, but with Anytime Pay you decide when you get paid. Same as with remote working, you are in control!









