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:
#130 Former Vice President Al Gore: Relentless
#129 CRO Zapier, Giancarlo “GC” Lionetti: Recheck, Rebalance
#128 Former COO and Corporate Officer at Stripe, Claire Hughes Johnson: Scaling People
#127 CEO Intuit Mailchimp, Rania Succar: Consistent Inner Equilibrium
#126 CRO Gem, Lesley Young: Hard Yards
#125 CRO Starburst, Javier Molina: Reading Cues
#124 Founding CRO at Procore, Dennis Lyandres: Defining "Winning"
#123 CEO GitHub, Thomas Dohmke: Open-Source Values
#122 President and Board Member at Freshworks, Dennis Woodside: What If This Goes Really Well?
#121 Founder and Co-CEO Brex, Henrique Dubugras: Pivot or Else
#120 Chairman & CEO ServiceNow, Bill McDermott: Full Speed Ahead
#119 Co-founder and CEO Gong, Amit Bendov: No Royalty
#118 Dean of Stanford GSB, Jonathan Levin: Innovation Engines
#117 Co-founder and COO Cloudflare, Michelle Zatlyn: A Better Internet
#116 Grit Recap: 9 Intersections of Personal and Professional
#115 Executive Board Member at SAP, Scott Russell: Chief Optimist Officer
#114 CMO GE, Linda Boff: Play ‘Til the Whistle
#113 CEO PagerDuty, Jennifer Tejada: The Re-Finder
#112 Former President at Tesla / CEO of DVx Ventures, Jon McNeill: First-Principles
#111 Founder and CEO Whoop, Will Ahmed: Unlocking Optimal Human Performance
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