Zapier

“There's free tools to make, you know, sites and use Zapier to connect them and all this stuff, and a lot of the initial Swag up site that did millions of dollars was all just hacky, bootstrappy, free stuff.”

“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.”

“And I think that's why, despite Zapier being a billion dollar plus company, I actually think it's underrated. All the focus is being put on, you know, open AI, twenty billion dollar plus valuation. When I think you have to look around open AI and ask yourself,…”

“Almost everyone in leadership gets a person. So Anna who runs people, we have Christine, who's the chief people officer from Duolingo. Moody Glasgow was the CMO of Zapier and Glassdoor. He does marketing. There's a guy named Colin Gardner. He does revenue. So …”

“I think there's still a lot of room around, like how do all these separate software products talk together?”

“In Zapier, each step is an island. It's isolated. Here, it's an agent. It's an agent that is aware of the entire context of everything it did, and so if you want to do this with Zapier, you're going to have to write, like, an HTML parser. You may not be able t…”

“Every single page you're seeing here is completely generated automatically using AI down to the image. You know, and so some of them you can obviously tell it's an AI-generated image, some of them not so much but description, the prep time, cook time, ingredie…”

“There's so many tools out there like Zapier, Claude, Webflow, Appify that we'll go through today. That actually can help you build very, very sophisticated SEO rich platforms, websites that really, and I'll show you some evidence, can help you compete with som…”

“A keyword such as best website builder typically draws in anywhere from 25 to 50 K a month.”

“But I would say just make the front end look as nice as possible to grab attention. If you're not as, you know, in a position to be easily creating traffic, just to grab that attention and clearly communicate what it is that, you know, like what makes your car…”

“I don't believe that most people are actually going to go create NAN workflows, make workflows, Zapier workflows. Like, I don't think that they should. Like, I think the future of all of this is you're just remixing other people's workflows.”

“And we've actually landed two sponsors through this. Like, it's really weird that they don't go through actual sponsor form, but these are legit sponsors from like big companies that went through a support inbox.”