Founder Profile
Wade Foster
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Wade Foster?
Wade Foster is a founder of Zapier Inc., which was founded in 2011 with Bryan Helmig and Mike Knoop.
- Company founded
- Zapier Inc.
- Founded
- 2011
- Co-founders
- Bryan Helmig and Mike Knoop
Background
University of Missouri graduate. Before Zapier, he worked at Veterans United Home Loans in Columbia, Missouri, and did freelance integration work.
Founding Story
Wade Foster co-founded Zapier in 2011 and has been its CEO since the company was founded. He left his job to work on Zapier full-time in December 2011 and led it through Y Combinator in 2012. He chose to keep the company fully remote and to fund growth from customer revenue after the seed round. He has also written extensively on Zapier's blog about remote work and how the company operates. Wade Foster was born in 1986.
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