Wade Foster

6 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 18, 2017 by Wade Foster · said 14 times in 4 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Aug 18, 2017
Insight
Startups should adopt proven management frameworks instead of inventing new ones
“I think a lot of companies, at least in startups, like they try to reinvent the wheel here. I think it's not probably a great idea, especially if you're growing really fast. It's, there's, like, a lot of good, like, scientific-backed research on, like, how to …”
Wade Foster Aug 18, 2017 ▶ 9:44 The CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate From the Bay · Y Combinator
Aug 18, 2017 positive
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Zapier's employee Net Promoter Score reached a world-class 72
“Our, we did, we started doing like an employee net promoter score and came in at like 72 which is like pretty world class.”
Wade Foster Aug 18, 2017 ▶ 33:09 The CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate From the Bay · Y Combinator
Aug 18, 2017 positive
Disclosure
Wade Foster consults founders one year ahead of him every six months
“One of the things that I always like, I like to do is about every six months, I'll go seek out founders who are basically a year ahead of me. And just ask like, what did you do in your last year? Like, what was the smartest thing you did in last year? What was…”
Wade Foster Aug 18, 2017 ▶ 40:46 The CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate From the Bay · Y Combinator
Aug 18, 2017 neutral
Opinion
Local talent shortage is the top scaling bottleneck in smaller cities
“So I think that's probably the biggest scaling challenge that you might actually just run into. If you're the first in a city of a billion dollars or a billion dollar company is just, is there the talent there?”
Wade Foster Aug 18, 2017 ▶ 29:41 The CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate From the Bay · Y Combinator
Aug 18, 2017 positive
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Zapier achieved 97% employee retention over a 12-month period
“Our attention is like incredibly high. So we actually just ran the numbers last week like 97% retention for over the last 12 months.”
Wade Foster Aug 18, 2017 ▶ 32:59 The CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate From the Bay · Y Combinator
Sep 19, 2018 neutral
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Cannon: Zapier's early content mistakenly targeted Hacker News over actual customers
“In the early days, what they were doing Was making things that Hacker News wanted, but it turns out that Hacker News and their customers was not a 100% overlap. So they were spending all this energy generating this content to get people through the door, but t…”
Craig Cannon Sep 19, 2018 ▶ 6:27 PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
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