Startup Sense Podcast

Ep 177: Interview with Wade Foster, founder of Zapier

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Synopsis

Many of us are using dozens of web apps on a daily or weekly basis for everything from sending emails to saving documents to managing contacts to assigning tasks to taking notes or so on. Most of these web apps don't automatically connect with each other unless they're using Zapier. The founders of Zapier realized back in 2011 when they started the company that the explosion in web apps would create this massive opportunity to connect hundreds of the most popular web apps to make us more productive and save us time. You can see all 750+ of the web apps currently connected through Zapier by [clicking here]. Zapier has 85 employees with no office or headquarters meaning every single person works remotely. The company went through Y-Combinator in the summer of 2012 and raised $1.3 million in late 2012. They have been cash flow positive since 2014 so they have not needed to raise any additional funding. In this interview I spoke with Wade, co-founder of Zapier about his journey as an entrepreneur over the past 6