I built 4 Agents in 55 minutes to save 20+ hours a week

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, this is super cool. This type of stuff only happens, I think, on MFM, but here's the deal. I have a friend named Wade Foster. He started a company called Zapier. Zapier is a business that was bootstrapped to hundreds of millions in revenue, and it's worth five or $10 billion. And I had the CEO and founder on Wade. I had him on MFM, and I said, look, share your screen and show me how you're using AI to save 10, 20, 30 hours a week. It's pretty amazing. He did it, and he broke down like three or four different ways that he has automated parts of his life and his business. And it's really, really cool because this guy has an incredible perspective because he has such a large company, but because he helped create this whole automation industry. So if you want to save a bunch of time, this stuff is not complicated. I don't know AI that well, and I'm going to implement a ton of the stuff that I've just learned. And by the way, if you're listening to this with audio only, you might want to go to Spotify Video or YouTube to watch this. It has a lot of visuals. You can still get a ton of value on audio, but it's just better, I think, on YouTube. So give it a watch, give it a listen, and let me know if you dug it. Talk soon.
So I'm thinking about how to introduce you, but basically I met you in 2016 or 17, something like that, when you spoke at one of my events, and then I asked you to speak at one of my events because you founded and ran a company called Zapier. You guys took off way before it was ever a thing, but you basically, if I remember correctly, you only raised at the time a million dollars, but you got it to nine figures in revenue, and then eventually raised a Series A at something like a $5 billion valuation. Is that about, those numbers about right?

**Wade Foster** (1:48)
Close. So the seed round was 1.2, and then the $5 billion number, that was all secondary. So none of that stuff went on to the balance sheet of the company.

**Sam Parr** (1:59)
How much did you guys raise? Was that public?

**Wade Foster** (2:01)
It wasn't, we didn't raise anything.

**Sam Parr** (2:04)
You took money?

**Wade Foster** (2:05)
Early investors, early employees got some liquidity from it, but nothing came to the company.

**Sam Parr** (2:10)
How big are you guys now?

**Wade Foster** (2:11)
What is the public number? I don't know the public number. Nine figures is public though.

**Sam Parr** (2:15)
Nine, you're at nine figures in revenue. And dude, it's one of my favorite companies. I never thought in a million years I would be fired up about such a dorky product, like connecting APIs. But basically, my entire company and everyone I know, our entire company is run off of Zapier.

**Wade Foster** (2:31)
Well, it's wild, so the first decade of existence, that dorky company thing, like 100% true. No one cares about workflow. Automation is like, we think it's cool. And there's definitely people who do think it's cool, but the Silicon Valley wisdom is, raise a bunch of money, throw bodies at the problem, blitz scale, go like nuts. And so people say they cared about automation, but their actions betrayed them in a lot of cases, certainly in tech. And so we're out here doing our thing, not a lot of people sort of in our space. Now you get into the AI world, and it's sort of totally inverted, where everyone cares about automation, everyone cares about AI. And so the market potential for us has just ballooned enormously. But of course, there's a lot more players in the space now.

**Sam Parr** (3:26)
Yeah, at the time when I, like when you guys were just getting going, it was basically you and maybe one other company doing this. Now there's so many more.

**Wade Foster** (3:35)
Yeah, and everybody has their angle, their niche, vertical this, vertical that, more dev centric, less dev centric. Yeah, so there's just everybody's kind of trying to get a piece of this, what is going to be a trillion dollar opportunity.

**Sam Parr** (3:50)
In 10 years, how big do you think your company will be in terms of revenue?

**Wade Foster** (3:54)
10 years? Well, shoot, I think we should be well past a billion in ARR if we do our jobs right.

**Sam Parr** (4:03)
And you think you will still not have raised the money?

**Wade Foster** (4:09)