MakerPad
company on 6 shows · 7 statements across 4 episodes · said 29 times in 7 episodes since 2021
Mixergy 16 
Top Founders 6 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 3 
We Live to Build 2 
Startup Acquisition Stories 1 
20VC 1
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- How He Built The Largest Rev Ops Community In The World (and $500k of revenue!)
- The Bezos Yawn Factor: Why No-Code Will Feel Mundane Soon
- 20VC: Scaling Zapier To $140M ARR and a $5Bn Valuation on $1.4M of Funding, What Founders Misunderstand About Fundraising & How Founders Should Think About Secondaries Today with Wade Foster, Founder & CEO @ Zapier
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Tossell: MakerPad was never built or intended to be venture-backed
“It was never going to be a venture company. I never wanted it to be that. It wasn't built to be that way.”
Tossell: No-code tool workflows are fundamentally programming in a visual format
“The thing I didn't realize until, I don't know whether it was within the MakerPad life or after it, was like, I'm still teaching programming, but in a different format. Like, there's different, the tools just look different. Like, they don't look like a code b…”
Tossell: Community leaders must ask basic questions to drive engagement
“When anyone asks, asks me for advice on community, the number one, I think, number one thing I say is, you're going to lead by example. Like, if you're not in there talking, no one else is going to be in there talking. If you're not in there asking seemingly s…”
MakerPad raised $350K in 2019 before Zapier acquisition in March 2021
“About 350 K of funding from calm fund and other angels in September, October, 2019. And then we were acquired by Zapier in March, 20 21.”
Tossell launched 50 failed projects before founding and selling Makerpad
“I think I launched, like, 50 things before MakerPad happened, and MakerPad happened because people didn't pay for all my other things. They would see the things I'd built and say, yeah, cool, I'm not buying that, but how did you do it?”
Zapier-owned MakerPad uses Disco to power its entire learning community
“Really big now organizations are using us, like MakerPad, which is the largest no-code school. It's owned by Zapier. We are the OS for their entire learning community”