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Flora: Zapier reached $100M in revenue having raised money only once
“And today that's a hundred million dollar revenue business. And they only raised money that one time.”
Knoop: Zapier had reached $50M in annual recurring revenue by 2019
“And it's like, well, yeah, we have, you know, a hundred, we have like fifty million in ARR, like, yeah, we're a real company.”
Knoop: Zapier was rejected by Y Combinator on its first application
“We applied actually twice to YC. We got the email rejection the first time. We applied basically with the prototype from Startup Weekend. So we had no customers, no traction, basically just three dudes from Missouri.”
Knoop: Zapier built an app directory and landing pages before the product
“We, so we built our app directory before we built the product. Before we launched in TechCrunch, that whole story was, ah, pre, that, we had been working on Zapier for about five months, I think, at that point. The very first thing we did when we sat down was …”