Zapier Co-Founder Mike Knoop on category creation, API evolution & AI architecture | E1769
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Today’s show:
Zapier’s Mike Knoop joins Jason to discuss the early days of Zapier before breaking down the evolution of app integrations and API usage (1:20). They dive into reducing friction for Zapier users, regulating AI, the limitations of present-day AI architecture, and more (43:06).
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Time stamps:
(0:00) Mike Knoop joins Jason
(1:20) Zapier’s origin story
(8:40) Zapier’s key inflection point and its profit-sharing model
(14:05) Zapier’s business model
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(17:03) The evolution of app integrations and API usage
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(25:00) Zapier demo + incorporating AI into your workflow
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(38:14) Linkedin tightening the belt on its API
(41:21) Zapier’s enterprise customers
(43:06) Reducing friction for Zapier users
(51:41) Regulating AI
(55:19) The limitations of present-day AI architecture
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| 0:00.0 | It's really not that many great local Italian places. |
| 0:03.3 | Oh, there is a good pizza joint called Centro Pizza on Broadway. |
| 0:08.7 | So you know Broadway and Burling game. |
| 0:10.1 | There's like the shit street and there's the great street. |
| 0:12.6 | Yep. |
| 0:13.0 | Broadway has a place called Centro Pizza and they make brick oven pizza |
| 0:17.7 | and it's fucking amazing. |
| 0:19.0 | It's the best pizza in the peninsula I've found. |
| 0:23.0 | Centro. |
| 0:23.6 | It does look good. |
| 0:24.3 | Yeah, it's pretty great. |
| 0:26.4 | Okay, there's your cold open, everybody. |
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| 0:31.4 | Embroker's startup insurance program helps start up secure the most important |
| 0:35.4 | types of insurance at a lower cost and with less hassle, save up to 20% off of |
| 0:41.0 | traditional insurance today at Embroker.com slash twist. |
| 0:45.7 | While you're there, get an extra 10% off using offer code twist, lemon.io. |
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