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Wade Foster
Wade Foster is the co-founder and CEO of Zapier, the automation platform connecting 7,000+ apps for over 2 million businesses. He built Zapier from a 2011 hackathon win in Columbia, Missouri into a ~$7 billion company on just $1.4 million in primary venture capital — one of the most capital-efficient growth stories in SaaS history. A jazz saxophonist from Jefferson City, Missouri with an industrial engineering degree and an MBA from Mizzou, Foster has led Zapier as a fully remote, profitable company since 2014, and is now positioning it as the AI orchestration layer for the agentic era.
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