Guest: Wade Foster, CEO and co-founder of Zapier
When Wade Foster and his co-founders launched Zapier, he was 24, and doubted himself constantly. He consulted mentors like Paul Graham and Jay Simons, studied entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs, and also took inspiration from an unlikely source: Actor and martial artist Bruce Lee. “[He] had this fighting style, ‘The Way of No Way,’” Wade says. “He would study all the different fighting styles, and he would say, ‘None of them is the best or the worst ... My job was to take the best of each and then discard the rest, and make it my own.’”
In this episode, Wade and Joubin discuss fully remote companies, long-term thinking, hyperscaling, product-market fit, broken products, secondary offerings, “delocation packages,” interview questions, mind-breaking growth, doubting yourself, LLMs, hackathons, and adding a sales team (eventually).
In this episode, we cover:
#190 Co-Founder Cost Plus Drugs, Mark Cuban: Mavs to Meds
#189 Co-Founder Watershed, Taylor Francis: Worthy Missions
#188 CEO and Co-Founder Synthesia, Victor Riparbelli w/ Josh Coyne: Gorilla in the Room
#187 President & COO of AG1, Kat Cole: Wings to Supplements
#186 COO Asana, Anne Raimondi: Recovering Perfectionist
#185 CEO and Founder Netskope, Sanjay Beri: The Trenches
#184 Former CEO and Co-Founder Sun, Scott McNealy: In the Piñata
#183 CEO and Co-Founder Harness, Jyoti Bansal: Three-Layered Cake
#182 CEO and Co-Founder Cribl, Clint Sharp: Finding Traction
#181 CEO Transcarent, Glen Tullman: Problem Solving
#180 CEO and Co-Founder Verkada, Filip Kaliszan: Outlier
#178 Author of “Radical Candor,” Kim Scott: Uncommon Sense
#177 President and Co-Founder Anthropic, Daniela Amodei: AI Hurricane
#176 CEO MongoDB, Dev Ittycheria: Edge
#175 CEO Snowflake, Frank Slootman: Amped
#174 CEO and Co-Founder Ginkgo Bioworks, Jason Kelly: Life Finds a Way
#173 Author of “The Qualified Sales Leader,” John McMahon: The Five-Time CRO
#172 Professor at UPenn & Author, Angela Duckworth: Grit
#171 Founder and Former CEO Drift, David Cancel: Never Trapped
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