How Wade Foster created a software that interacts with over 250 others

Wade Foster, Zapier, Customer Acquisition, Mixergy Fan

You know how I keep saying that great business ideas are really based on addressing customers’ pain?

Well, today’s guest is a Mixergy fan who did it with me a few years ago, and that’s how I became his first customer.

If you want to learn how to start a business, learn from him.

Wade Foster is the co-founder of Zapier, a tool that lets your favorite apps work together.

Wade Foster

Zapier

Wade Foster is the co-founder of Zapier, a tool that lets your favorite apps work together.

 

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I am the man who puts his hand in your face whenever he starts a conversation. I’m also Andrew Warner, the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart.

We got an ambitious upstart with me here today. You know, I keep saying in hundreds, probably, of my thousand-plus interviews, that the way to start a business is, or the way that I’ve learned from my interviews to start a business, is not to say where is a good idea, but instead to say, where is a person who has a pain and is willing to pay for the solution?

Well, today’s guest is a Mixergy fan who did that process on me, on me personally, a few years ago! And on other people too. And I wanted to invite him here to talk about how he did it so you can learn from him how to start not just a business, but a new product. Wade Foster is the co- founder of Zapier, a tool that lets your favorite apps work together. We use it here on...

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