Wade Foster is the co-founder and CEO of Zapier, the automation platform that connects thousands of apps and powers workflows for millions of users worldwide. Since founding the company at Missouri Startup Weekend in 2011, Wade has scaled Zapier into one of the most widely used productivity tools in the world, while building it as a fully remote, globally distributed team.

A champion of accessibility and entrepreneurship, Wade has led Zapier’s mission to make automation attainable to everyone, from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Under his leadership, Zapier has become one of the most successful bootstrapped startups of the last decade, having raised only a small amount of outside capital. Wade is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.