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:
#170 Chairman of Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr: Getting Into Trouble with Disruptors (Encore)
#169 CEO and Founder Cato Networks, Shlomo Kramer: The Burden of Persona
#168 CEO and Founder Glean, Arvind Jain w/ Mamoon Hamid: New Playbook
#167 CEO StockX, Scott Cutler: Detroit’s First Unicorn
#166 Executive Chairman and Former CEO Attentive, Brian Long: Problem Hunting
#165 Former CEO and Co-Founder of Zillow, Spencer Rascoff: Real Estate Voyeurism
#164 CEO and Co-Founder Duolingo, Luis von Ahn: "The Pitch Was Never Pittsburgh"
#163 CEO Bill, René Lacerte: Hourglass Leadership
#162 CEO and Co-Founder Rippling, Parker Conrad w/ Mamoon Hamid: Compounding
#161 Founder and EVP of Oracle NetSuite, Evan Goldberg: Endless Possibilities
#160 CEO Grammarly, Rahul Roy-Chowdhury: Better, Not More
#159 CEO 1Password, Jeff Shiner: Chief Eliminator of Obstacles
#158 CRO Anduril Industries, Matt Steckman: On Defense
#157 CEO Udemy, Greg Brown: The Plunge
#156 CRO Snowflake, Chris Degnan: Part 2
#155 CEO Yahoo, Jim Lanzone: Brand Rejuvenation
#154 Remix: Tornadoes, Unicorn Meat, and Hypergrowth Sales
#153 COO and CRO Weights & Biases, Yan-David Erlich: ML’s Moment
#152 CEO Gainsight, Nick Mehta: Human-First
#151 CEO Outreach, Manny Medina: 10M or Die
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