Wade Foster
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Wade Foster is the co-founder and CEO of Zapier. He co-founded the company in 2011 with Bryan Helmig and Mike Knoop while living in Columbia, Missouri, after noticing through freelance web work alongside his day job that clients repeatedly wanted integrations between apps. The team developed the basis of Zapier at Missouri Startup Weekend, later joined Y Combinator’s Summer 2012 batch, and used seed funding to grow the company. He is known for building Zapier, a workflow automation platform that connects more than 6,000 work apps.
Updated 9 September 2026
Public sources: ycombinator.com
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