How Wade Foster connected the world with Zapier
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Wade is the CEO and co-founder of Zapier, a workflow automation and productivity software used by over a million people. He's a Y Combinator Alumni, avid racquetball player, and Missouri native.
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| 0:00.0 | Boom shake the room fire nation JLD here and welcome to episode |
| 0:08.6 | 1999 of EO fire right chat with entrepreneurs on fire seven days a week |
| 0:16.7 | and I want you fire nation to check out our free podcasting course so that you |
| 0:21.9 | can create grow and monetize your podcast free podcast course dot com now let's |
| 0:28.5 | chat with today's featured guest Wade Foster waiter you prepared to ignite |
| 0:34.5 | yes let's do it yes Wade is the CEO and co-founder of Zapier a workflow |
| 0:42.1 | automation and productivity software used by over a million people he's a |
| 0:47.1 | Y combinator alumni avid a racquetball player in Missouri native wait take a |
| 0:53.7 | minute fill in some gaps from that intro and give us just a little glimpse of |
| 0:57.8 | your personal life I work on Zapier most of the time I play a lot of |
| 1:02.1 | racquetball I hang out with my wife and dog and you know that's that's it that |
| 1:06.1 | fills the day for me well by the time people hear this it'll be a set in |
| 1:10.6 | done but while we're talking it's the middle of March madness or you a Missouri |
| 1:14.9 | fan oh I'm excited we're back in the dance for the first time in five years so it |
| 1:20.6 | should be good I've got it all cute up ready to watch on Friday night they play |
| 1:24.4 | so well listen if you got some time on Friday afternoon you can watch my team |
| 1:29.0 | proven his college who's in for the fifth straight year one of the 13 teams to |
| 1:34.4 | do that by the way pretty awesome stuff we're gonna be playing Texas A&M at |
| 1:39.1 | 1215 so I'm pretty fired up for that that'll be good they and him's got a good |
| 1:43.0 | team so listen brother we're gonna talk about Zapier because as we shared in |
| 1:47.3 | the little pre-interview chat that we had Zapier does make people happier it's |
| 1:51.1 | just a reality but first and foremost what would you say today your area of |
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