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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 it keeps you energized to keep trying to create more moments like that for your customers.

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

If I could meet, you know, a customer every day, in fact, like if I could meet a customer every hour of every day, like I would do it because it's just so energizing to hear the success that we're able to bring for them.

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

My wife is Chelsea.

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

So my wife is has started to use Zapier herself.

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

She's a consultant for small businesses.

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

She used to be a teacher.

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

And, you know, when we started Zapier, she's a teacher.

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

And I was like, well, you know, she probably never will understand quite what we do.

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

She'll get it like the concept.

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

She'll get the elevator pitch.

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

But like she won't ever be a user.

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

But now I hear in the other room coaching her clients on how to use Zapier, teaching them how to use Gmail, teaching them how to use Asana and all these different tools together.

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

So if she hears we're selling, she's probably like, what am I going to do for my own customers, Wade?

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

She's like, are you guys โ€“ is Zapier going to keep existing?

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

So I'm sure she would be a little โ€“

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

A little on the fence if that came through.

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

nah, it's not something that we, we think, you know, is a concern from us for competitive threat or from, um, you know, market risk.

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

I think for us, our goal at the end of the day is let's solve our customers need.

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

And if we keep chasing after our own customers and keep trying to meet their needs, um, we'll always be in a good position.

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

The world is too short on companies that care deeply about solving for the customer's problems that if we can be one of the few that does that well, um,