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What Attracted Zapier Team to Y Combinator · Gritty Founder

How Wade Foster built Zapier to $50 Million

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How Did Zapier Start at 4:13

Bryan Helmig and Wade Foster were living in Columbia, Missouri, a college town of 100k people, where they were known as "The people who could do internet… Full answer
What Was the First Ever Zap at 6:51

The team took their business idea to Startup Weekend and pitched that anyone who pays them through PayPal would be able to log their name into Highrise CRM… Full answer
What Attracted Zapier Team to Y Combinator at 8:47

While already having integrations with big tech companies like PayPal, Twilio, Mailchimp and Basecamp, Zapier started to get requests for more and more… Full answer
What Is a Good Productivity Hack for Founders Using Zapier at 11:51

Wade is using Zapier to automated their weekly executive standup with a weekly Zap that creates all of the required documents, calendar invites and emails… Full answer
Why Did Zapier Choose to Be a Remote Company at 15:06

Zapier never specifically planned to be a remote company, instead it just happened naturally. Full answer
What Does Every Potential Entrepreneur Need to Know About Startups at 17:13

No one gives you an assignment and tells you what the right thing to do, but the best thing you can do is to find a problem and to start solving it. Full answer
How Do You Prioritize Customer Feedback at 18:46

In Zapier's case, it seems that focusing on one problem and making sure they were the best at solving that one problem was the key to their success. Full answer

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