Zapier

“Zapier is now, I'm not sure, 50, 80, a hundred million or something like that, and to my knowledge, they've never raised a round after the seat.”

“We sort of said, screw it, we're going to do our first pricing model based on the Fibonacci sequence, and so our plans were 11 dollars, 23 dollars, and 58 dollars, and then we named them Amps, ohms, and volts, sort of like riffing on the zap theme a little bit…”

“I have not encountered anything harder in my career than, like, hiring great executives. Any CEO who tells you that's not at least in their top two, like, I would be like, really?”

“Well, if you want to learn how to run a company, I think the smaller company you can be a part of, the better, because you're just going to get exposed to, like, the whole of the thing.”

“Zapier makes you happier is the trick.”

“I tend to say, you know, because we've intentionally put them below the, like, priority list, I don't worry about them all that much. Like, I kind of take the mindset of, like, well, if it was really important, it would have been, like, the number one thing we…”

“I haven't. So, I don't need that much money, like, to sort of live a good lifestyle, I think, is sort of what it boils down to.”

“I feel like we're kind of at starting to get to a little bit of another inflection point where we're sort of having to reset some of how our operating cadence works. Like, how our management structure works yet again. So, like, I'd say 30, a 103 hundred kind o…”

“We've built this tool, Async, internally, that is like a I mean, the best way to describe it is kind of like a Reddit style, but long form Reddit, I guess, where you can post blog posts and assign them, like, into a category or, like, maybe subreddit if you wa…”

“You know, I generally think that, particularly for founders in particular, like, having a little secondary generally is a good thing. When you run a company for a long time, you tend to not pay yourself super well. You take on a certain, like, personal finance…”

“We actually just acquired this company, MakerPad”

“I did want to be in a position where we could do that quickly, and so I just sort of set up a, like, simple calendar where I said, you know, hey, One Friday, every quarter, I'm gonna, like, go snag lunch with somebody, or I'm gonna jump on a Zoom call with som…”

“So many founders spend so much time engaged in the fundraising process. That is a huge mental and time investment that you have to commit to, and so for us, we never had to do any of that. That all Was founder energy poured right back into helping our customer…”

“Post-YC in 2012, Wade raised 1.4 million dollars for the company from Bessemer and Threshold, but since that round, he's scaled the company to a hundred and forty million in ARR and a five billion dollar valuation without any traditional style venture rounds h…”

“Today I have six, I think, so, you know, I'm doing pretty good right now, but there's been, you know, even as early as late last year, I had, like, 14 or something like that.”

“Yeah, you know, at Zapier, we, like, the exec team has a staff meeting every week. There's a prompt ahead of time that tees up the topics, and so people sort of pre-fill out their documents and Folks join a Zoom for the meeting. We do 10 minutes of pre-read. W…”

“A little over 400 people today.”

“You're lucky if half your VPs not only do their job well, right, but do more than their job. Like, carry some of that load, and if you can even have half of your management team do it, that's like magic, and I realize he's right”

“I have one example. Zapier did that for very, very long. I talked to the Zapier founders. I talked to Mike when I was at Segment, and I wanted enterprise features, and he said, gee, we love you, but I'm sorry. We're not going to build those features. I'm like,…”

“If you look at Zapier, over 70% of their SEO traffic still goes to their blog.”

“If you look at Zapier, over 70% of their SEO traffic still goes to their blog.”

“DigitalOcean was built entirely on SEO farm. So was Zapier and others.”