Zapier’s Secrets to Product Market Fit with Wade Foster (Co-founder and CEO of Zapier)
Description
Wade Foster is the Co-founder and CEO of Zapier, an automation platform that helps you work faster. Wade and his co-founders Mike and Bryan started the company in 2011, and have always done things a bit differently. From being a startup based in Missouri, working as a remote team since 2011, and raising very little outside capital despite being one of the fastest growing startups in the world.
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Topics discussed include:
The founding story of Zapier
Wade’s contrarian take on Product Market Fit
Why new products are usually built on emerging distribution channels
How Wade deals with imposter syndrome
Never raising more money after a $1.3 million Seed during YC
How Zapier thinks about it’s product roadmap
Shutting the company down for a weeklong AI hackathon
Why Wade thinks LLMs will unlock new types of product interfaces
How he delegates work without losing track of the details
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Referenced:
https://zapier.com
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Where to find Wade:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wadefoster
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wadefoster
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Where to find Turner:
Newsletter: https://www.thespl.it
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TurnerNovak
Banana Capital: https://bananacapital.vc
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Production and distribution by: https://www.supermix.io
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