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Wade Foster

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
217 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

And so the end user needs a way to kind of configure a little bit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

It's like, well, I have a first name and a last name here, but I really just want the first name.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

So our formatter can help you say, well, I just want the first split of the space and just give me the first name.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

So these little utility functions help people just get more out of these tools that they're looking for

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

in a way that's pretty accessible to kind of your average worker.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

You know, I think it's not too different than perhaps like a VC might approach things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

You know, you're trying to pay attention to

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

Are they hiring more people?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

Is there traffic going up?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

You can look at Alexa rankings and see

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

stuff like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

Are there, did they raise some money?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

Obviously that's not always a signal, but you're just trying to piece together all these like little public bits of information to figure out like, hey, is there someone that we should be talking to that we're not talking to?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

So it is, it does look very similar to I think like what VCs would do when they're on the hunt for, you know, trying to invest in a company that's growing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

Yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

Right at a million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

No, they're still on the cap table.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

Yeah, yeah, of course.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

I think our investors are solid.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships

You know, we went through YC, a big stakeholder for us, one of the larger stakeholders for us.