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98th percentile
62nd percentile
Zapier co-founder and CEO scaling AI orchestration to a $5B valuation
Credibility
Operator · 97th percentile
- Current co-founder and CEO of Zapier.
- Y Combinator Summer 2012 alum with Zapier.
- Co-founded Zapier with Bryan Helmig and Mike Knoop.
- Google Knowledge Graph maintains a panel for him as CEO of Zapier.
- Top corroborated YouTube appearance 'Zapier's CEO shares his personal AI stack' has ~10,689 views.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Current co-founder and CEO of Zapier.
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Y Combinator Summer 2012 alum with Zapier.
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Co-founded Zapier with Bryan Helmig and Mike Knoop.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)73,427 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Zapier reached a ~$5B valuation, with reports pegging it as high as ~$7B.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)zapier.com ranks #952 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Zapier has been profitable since 2014.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Founded the company behind zapier/django-drip, a flagship open-source project with 639 stars on GitHub.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Google Knowledge Graph maintains a panel for him as CEO of Zapier.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Forbes 30 Under 30 alum.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Top corroborated YouTube appearance 'Zapier's CEO shares his personal AI stack' has ~10,689 views.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 recognition.
Investor score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with portfolio including Adalo, OneSchema, and Createanything.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Three known angel investments: Adalo, OneSchema, Createanything.
What you likely need
As the bootstrapped-then-unicorn CEO of Zapier, you're operating at the intersection of AI orchestration and enterprise SaaS — the events most valuable to you bring peer CEOs at $100M+ ARR scale and AI infra leaders into the same room. Lean into intimate gatherings where you can pressure-test enterprise GTM motions and recruit senior AI leadership while staying connected with your YC and Missouri founder roots.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA YC S12 cohort dinner to reconnect with batchmates now running similarly scaled companies and trade enterprise GTM playbooks.
- tacticalA roundtable for capital-efficient founders who scaled past $100M ARR on minimal funding, to compare secondaries, governance, and late-stage strategy.
- positioningAn AI orchestration / agent-platform CEO dinner with peers from Make, n8n, LangChain, and Glean to compare enterprise agent adoption patterns.
- tacticalA remote-first CEO offsite for leaders running 500+ person fully-distributed orgs to share operating cadences and culture rituals.
- introsAn angel investor deal night focused on AI-native SaaS seed rounds, building on your Adalo/OneSchema/Createanything portfolio.
- positioningAn enterprise AI buyer happy hour with F500 CIOs to sharpen Zapier's enterprise positioning against Microsoft Power Automate and Workato.
- hiringAn executive recruiting workshop on landing a head of AI / enterprise CRO for the next phase of Zapier.
- introsA Mizzou / Midwest founders gathering to mentor early-stage founders coming out of the same ecosystem that produced Zapier.