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Lemkin: DigitalOcean and Zapier Built Their Growth Entirely on SEO
“DigitalOcean was built entirely on SEO farm. So was Zapier and others.”
Zapier refused Segment's enterprise feature requests to maintain strict SMB focus
“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,…”
Harries: Over 70% of Zapier's SEO traffic goes to its blog
“If you look at Zapier, over 70% of their SEO traffic still goes to their blog.”
Harries: Over 70% of Zapier's SEO Traffic Goes to Its Blog
“If you look at Zapier, over 70% of their SEO traffic still goes to their blog.”
Zapier reached $140M ARR and $5B valuation on $1.4M primary funding
“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…”
Zapier's initial pricing model was based on the Fibonacci sequence
“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…”