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How Did Zapier Start

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 stuff."

Every now and then they would get asked to do one-off API integrations, and eventually, they realized it could be a business all on its own.

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How Wade Foster built Zapier to $50 Million ·

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