Wade Foster
19 statements across 4 episodes · 12 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 19, 2025 by Wade Foster · said 5 times in 3 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2026 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
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Dec 19, 2025 positive
Dec 19, 2025
Foster: Zapier uses AI to automatically critique and coach its executive team
“And so for our exec team meetings, we have these recorded. And so we'll take the transcript automatically. We'll send it to a prompt. That is based on the five dysfunctions of a team. So if you haven't read five dysfunctions of a team, it's, it basically descr…”
Dec 19, 2025 positive
Dec 29, 2025 positive
Warner: Zapier's founder automates employee meeting feedback based on management books
“Wade, the founder, likes the, what is it, the five dysfunctions of an organization, of a team. I forget the name of the book. Anyway, he likes it so much that that, at the end of each internal meeting, Everyone's individual contribution to the meeting gets ana…”
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Wade Foster: Companies are building plain-text webpages exclusively for AI agents
“Agents care a ton about, like, clean documentation, like, fast webpages, so, you know, it's like, the thing I'm seeing a lot of folks do is serve up a separate version of their webpage that is meant just for the agent, and so that content is, like, plain text.”
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Wade Foster used Cursor to build a tool from Granola meeting notes
“I got off the call, and I have cursor hooked up to granola, And so the meeting was recorded with Granola, and so I said, hey, Granola, our, go, go fetch that meeting I just had with Ryan, and in it he describes the war council he built. Build that for me. And …”
Mar 9, 2026
Wade Foster: Marketing to AI purchasing agents requires entirely new skills
“The agent is actually choosing what products to buy on behalf of a human. And so you're no longer advertising to the human. You are trying to get the agent to say, pick me. And that is often a very different skill set than marketing to a human.”
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Wade Foster: Zapier uses a multi-agent AI to check hiring decisions
“I find it to be a really helpful tool at keeping the panel honest, keeping me honest on a decision where I can find myself sort of like feeling one way or the other, and then you talk to it, and it like really grounds the decision, and you're like, then you ha…”
Mar 9, 2026 negative
Wade Foster: Interviewers struggle to reject candidates approved by previous rounds
“It's hard for humans to say no to, like, candidates that are good. It gets harder to say no as the interview goes along. So, like, two people before you said yes, now are you gonna be the person that says no? So you get more of that. And also humans I find are…”
Mar 9, 2026 bearish
Wade Foster: AI agent skills will become cheap commodities like WordPress themes
“I could see skills kind of having, like, a business model like that, where it's like, you could buy, you know, buy one for five bucks, 10 bucks, there would be a bunch of free skills out there. You know, it's, it feels kind of like a very commodity thing at a …”
Mar 9, 2026 positive
Wade Foster: Claude Opus struggles with hard coding tasks compared to OpenAI
“One thing I've found is that like Opus is like more enjoyable to just like talk to and go back to it. Like sort of is an easier conversation list, but like when I'm having it work on hard problems, it sometimes just like bugs out. It doesn't do as good of a jo…”
Apr 7, 2026
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Foster: Automating workflows trains your brain to spot further automation opportunities
“Once you start automating a few things, you find that your own brain starts to get better at spotting opportunities because you're like, oh, I remember this other thing I did that was kind of like this. I can probably do this in the same way or the same versio…”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Foster consults an AI agent daily to identify new workflow automations
“I find myself every single day, first thing in the morning, I just talk to the agent and I say like, hey, what work have I done recently where I should build new workflows and build new agents and build new stuff? And it will start proposing them to me and say…”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Apr 7, 2026
Apr 7, 2026 negative
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Foster: Do AI tasks manually before converting repetitive workflows into skills
“My approach is I usually do it the manual way first. It's like, I'll usually just like, you know, pop open a new chat, and I'll just start yapping at it. And then if I find myself doing the same thing kind of over and over again, then I'll build like a skill f…”