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My First Million

I built 4 Agents in 55 minutes to save 20+ hours a week

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Episode 729: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Zapier founder Wade Foster ( https://x.com/wadefoster ) about how to build AI Agents. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (5:57) DEMO: Instant Dossier (10:49) Model Context Protocol (19:30) DEMO: Read Strategy memos like a Harvard MBA (29:13) DEMO: Inbox Zero Agent (36:00) Getting your team to use AI (40:00) DEMO: Employee fraud detector — Links: • Zapier - zapier.com • Claude - Claude.ai • Glean - https://www.glean.com/ • Databricks - https://www.databricks.com/ • Superwhisper - https://superwhisper.com/ • Wisprflow - https://wisprflow.ai/ • N8n - https://n8n.io/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0

All right, this is super cool. This type of stuff only happens, I think, on MFM. But here's the deal. I have a friend named Wade Foster who started a company called Zapier. Zappier is a business that was bootstrapped to hundreds of millions in revenue and it's worth $5 or $10 billion. And I had the CEO and founder on Wade. I had him on MFM and I said, look, share your screen and show me how you're using AI to save 10, 20, 30 hours a week.

0:23.6

It's pretty amazing. He did it. And he broke down like three or four different ways that he has

0:29.0

automated parts of his life and his business. And it's really, really cool because this guy has an

0:34.7

incredible perspective because he has such a large company, but because he helped

0:38.6

create this whole automation industry. So if you want to save a bunch of time, this stuff is not

0:43.6

complicated. I don't know AI that well, and I'm going to implement a ton of the stuff that I've just

0:48.5

learned. And by the way, if you're listening to this with audio only, you might want to go to Spotify

0:53.2

video or YouTube to watch this. It has a lot of visuals. You can still get a ton of value on audio, but it's just better, I think, on YouTube. So give it a watch. Give it a listen. And let me know if you dug it. Talk soon. I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in, like no day's off.

1:12.5

On the road, let's travel.

1:13.7

So, I'm thinking about how to introduce you, but basically I met you in 2016 or 17, something like that when you spoke at one of my events.

1:22.9

And I asked you to speak at one of my events because you founded and ran a company called Zapier.

1:29.0

You know, you guys took off before AI was way before it was ever a thing, but you basically,

1:34.3

if I remember correctly, you only raised at the time a million dollars, but you got it to

1:38.7

nine figures in revenue and then eventually raised a series A at something like a $5 billion evaluation.

1:46.1

Is that about those numbers about right?

1:48.3

Close.

1:48.9

So the seed round was 1.2.

1:51.0

And then the $5 billion number, that wasn't, that was all secondary.

1:56.4

So none of that stuff went on to the balance sheet of the company.

1:59.4

How much did you guys raise?

2:00.5

Was that public?

2:17.9

It wasn't. We didn't raise anything. We took money. Early investors, early employees, like, got some liquidity from it, but nothing came to the company. How big are you guys now? What is the public number? I don't know the public number. Nine figures is public, though. Nine, you're at nine figures in revenue. And, uh, dude, it's, it's, it's one of my favorite companies.

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