Building companies using Zapier’s AI automations

Wade Foster, Zapier, AI, B2B, SaaS (software as a service)

Zapier used to be the software that connected all your other software. But it’s AI has become so powerful that people are using it to build software companies.

Founder Wade Foster joined me to talk about and show how they’re building on it.

Wade Foster

Zapier

Wade Foster is the co-founder and CEO of Zapier, the automation platform used by over 350,000 customers to connect more than 8,000 apps. He started Zapier in 2011 with just $1.2M in seed funding and grew it into a profitable company generating hundreds of millions in revenue. Today, Wade is leading Zapier’s evolution into AI-powered automation and agent-based workflows that help businesses move faster with fewer people.

Andrew Warner: Zapier’s AI automations are so good. People are creating whole software companies on top of them, and it’s so easy to do well. The founder’s gonna show you how easy coming up. Wade Foster is the founder of Zapier, the AI automation company. Yay. Let’s get it. The next new thing. Why don’t we start with this?

I feel like everyone’s going after HVAC and roofers these days in tech, you know? Um. You have people who use Zapier to create their whole businesses. Gimme an example of somebody.

Wade Foster: Well, it’s funny you say roofers. Um, we have, uh, one of our like, solutions partners, experts, he started as a roofer. So he was running small time business, local roofing business.

You know, hail would come in, people would call him up and be like, I need a new roof. And he’d go out and like, get him a new roof. And so that’s what he did for a living. Um, and. You know, as for roofers go,...

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