Wade Foster

4 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 11, 2024 by Wade Foster · across every show →

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Dec 11, 2024
Disclosure
Zapier made its first revenue via a $100 personal PayPal transfer
“Send it to my personal PayPal account. And so that was literally how we made our first money was just a hundred bucks via PayPal.”
Wade Foster Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 19:33 How Zapier Became Profitable in 3 Years and Scaled to $5B with Wade Foster
Dec 11, 2024 positive
Insight
Wade Foster says startups should charge beta users to filter noisy feedback
“Everyone's like, oh, we should make it free. So we get more usage, et cetera. And I just think that that's a really tough place to be. Cause you're going to get a lot of just like noisy feedback from people who actually really don't have this problem. Whereas …”
Wade Foster Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 20:04 How Zapier Became Profitable in 3 Years and Scaled to $5B with Wade Foster
Dec 11, 2024
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Wade Foster personally conducted manual onboarding for over 50 early Zapier users
“I was doing this bespoke onboarding for, I don't know how many people I did it for. I lost count. It probably was hundreds. You know, if it wasn't hundreds, it was definitely, you know, more than 50 people that I was just going through this process over and ov…”
Wade Foster Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 13:10 How Zapier Became Profitable in 3 Years and Scaled to $5B with Wade Foster
Dec 11, 2024
Insight
Early customers tolerate poor software if founders care deeply about their problem
“Like most, most people don't have an entrepreneur who deeply cares about solving their problem. And so even if the software is not good, they'll be okay with it because like you just have a passion and excitement for it.”
Wade Foster Dec 11, 2024 ▶ 30:55 How Zapier Became Profitable in 3 Years and Scaled to $5B with Wade Foster
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