Between Two Founders
Between Two Founders
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An enlightening series of fireside chats, hosted by Jeff Seibert of Digits, featuring seasoned founders from VC-backed startups. Gain rare insights from their journeys, and first hand experience.
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Focuses on the journeys of seasoned founders from VC-backed startups, with episodes covering topics like business insurance innovation in Episode 005 with Travis Hedge, the cloud storage landscape in Episode 004 with Aaron Levie, fintech competition in Episode 003 with Immad Akhund, trust management strategies in Episode 002 with Christina Cacioppo, and product market fit discussions in Episode 001 with Kayvon Beykpour.

An enlightening series of fireside chats, hosted by Jeff Seibert of Digits, featuring seasoned founders from VC-backed startups. Gain rare insights from their journeys, and first hand experience.
Episode 009 of Between Two Founders: Jeff sits down with Wade Foster, Co-founder and CEO of Zapier, to uncover how a “weird,” fully remote team built one of tech’s most influential platforms, now behind 81+ billion automations.
Wade also shares Zapier’s origins, from a Startup Weekend in Columbia to a second shot at YC, and reveals how Zapier is weaving AI into its workflow engine to make automation both reliably structured and intelligently adaptive.
Stay till the end to hear Wade answer: What’s the CEO of Zapier’s favorite use of his own product?
00:00 Trailer
01:09 Introduction
02:45 Wade Foster's Journey: From Missouri to Zapier
08:14 Building Zapier: Challenges and Successes
22:40 Navigating Unconventional Business Strategies
25:48 Innovative Practices for Remote Teams
31:56 AI Integration and Future Prospects

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