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“When AI comes into the mix though, now an automation gets so much more valuable, right? Because your automation can be Infinitely smarter than anything you could do previously with, you know, scripts and stuff like that. So that has dramatically increased the …”

“My mum still won't build an app even though you can use something like Lovable. It's, because I think it's still, you've got to want to do the building bit. Like, that's still the issue. It's either someone like my mother wants the app built, doesn't want to s…”

“Because I have a very high threshold for pain and I want to code it.”

“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…”

“What I see the best automators do is they know ChatGPT is really good at this type of queries. Claude is really good at these types of queries. Gemini's really good at this type of stuff, and so they're using Zapier to say, hey, go route this request here, and…”

“This is the other place where AI is really exciting, is it's not just helpful as a tool inside your workflows. It's also really helpful for building workflows, because building workflows is kind of hard. Like, not everyone thinks in systems, thinks in structur…”

“And then you can have logic that encompasses any of the 8000 different tools we work with.”

“The most money we lost in a month was about 20,000 dollars”

“I think, you know, we will probably always depend on you know, external LLMs for large parts of this.”

“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…”

“Digital marketing agencies, they're like, this is the place where I've seen most automation agencies spin up because there is so much just low hanging fruit that can help any business be more, more successful.”

“We did a seed round that was 1.2 million in 2012.”

“In fact, I would wager, if you're not using AgentBuilder with Zapier, you're probably using like a much It's basically just a vanilla chat, chatbot builder, is what this is.”

“We have one of our like solutions partners, experts, he started as a roofer. So he was running small time business, local roofing business, you know, Hale would come in, people would call him up and be like, I need a new roof, and he'd go out and, like, get hi…”

“We're like, 350,000 customers or so.”

“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…”

“Who really cares about what it's made in or if it's custom or if it's Zapier, like the thing that you're, should be buying is the outcome for the business.”

“I just talked with Wade, the founder of Zapier, he's got people in his company now who are mark, who are building marketing motions to sell to agents, and it's phenomenal, and it's going well”

“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 …”

“This week now we are rolling out company-wide. We're getting everybody in every function, not just engineering. So like marketing, sales, accounting, HR, all set up on either cursor, cloud code, or codex. One of the three.”

“It's minimal. You know, it's like a single digit percentage. It's so small compared to like headcount.”

“I think vibe coding is fantastic for building tools that you can't buy, or these, like smaller utilities, where it's like, hey, this is sort of like a one-off piece of software that I need to use to solve a particular job. Fantastic. We're seeing so much more …”

“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…”

“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…”

“I review every single job offer that goes out inside of Zapier still.”

“Almost 10,000 apps that Zapier hooks into.”

“We are launching the Zapier SDK into open beta.”

“And that was a task that used to take me You know, 30 minutes per every candidate. And now it's down to like five.”