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Hello, everyone.

My guest today is Wade Foster.

He is the CEO and co-founder of Zapier. And we'll start right there.

Wait, are you ready to take us to the top? Let's do it. Good. So is there any other con, I mean,

your bio is short and simple, which I love, but is there any other context you should have around

kind of your life or your story or did you start this right at a college? So I started Zapier one year out of college. So I had a job for about a year and a half. And then,

you know, ended up starting Zapier based on some freelance work that I was doing with my co-founder

at the time. He kind of realized some of the freelance work we were doing was these integrations

and was like, hey, we can build a product around this. Okay, tell me that story because I have to say a lot of the most successful SaaS companies,

they come out of like an agency or people doing freelance work,

realizing that every client they work with has the same damn problem and they build software for it.

Yeah, that was the gist.

We had built like a PayPal QuickBooks integration.

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