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AI Will Reshape Society: Wade Foster (Co-Founder, Zapier)
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AI Will Reshape Society: Wade Foster (Co-Founder, Zapier)

Learnings from YC, office hours with Paul Graham, how AI is reshaping society, the future of SaaS pricing, and more
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Welcome to our first episode of BIG IDEAS by NEW ECONOMIES - a show where we learn how the most iconic founders have turned crucible moments into global companies. Our guest on today’s episode is Wade Foster, the co-founder of Zapier which helps companies with software automations and more.

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In this episode we cover the founding story of Zapier and which tech trends Wade is most excited about and the types of businesses that could be created from them.

Chapters:

(00:00) Intro

(02:10) Building Zapier

(05:30) Growth strategies

(08:45) Building the team

(10:43) Bootstrapping vs. VC

(14:53) Lessons from YC

(17:05) Navigating growth

(18:57) Adapting AI

(21:19) The future of AI

(26:34) AI bubble?

(28:33) AI Fluency

(36:05) Trends


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