How to grow from an idea to 1 million users, manage a remote team, and make the internet easier, with Wade Foster of Zapier

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English - May 10, 2016 06:00 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 104 ratings
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Today's guest, Wade Foster, is co-founder and CEO of Zapier, the easiest way to sync data between web apps. Wade is an alumni of the University of Missouri, Startup Weekend, and Y Combinator. He now runs Zapier from the San Francisco Bay Area.

Zapier focused on revenue growth after graduating Y Combinator, and it has grown to nearly 1 million users with only a little over $1 million in funding. The service is also growing to include more multi-step Zaps to further improve the lives of their users, and the users of applications they are partnered with. Strategic partners have been vital for growing Zapier and the products offered.

We're going to learn how strategic partnerships are key to growth, how to run a remote company, and how focusing on revenue is so much more important than just focusing on users.

You can also access this episode at http://goandgrowpodcast.com/031.