Most people think they understand how they work.

They don’t.

In this episode, Wade Foster, co-founder and CEO of Zapier, explains what actually happens when you connect AI to your tools, your data, and your workflow.

It doesn’t just help. It sees things you don’t.

From analyzing your work to automating entire systems, AI is becoming something closer to a second brain—one that can understand your business better than you can.

And the people who learn how to use it first?

They won’t just be more efficient. They’ll be operating on a completely different level.

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0:00 AI Sees What You Don’t (Cold Open)
0:42 Meet Wade Foster (Zapier CEO)
1:05 From Midwest to Startup Life
1:50 The Moment He Had to Figure It Out
2:48 Falling in Love With Software
3:29 First Experience With Zapier
4:08 What Zapier Actually Does
5:43 The Shift Into the AI Era
6:20 When AI Knows Your Business Better Than You
7:28 What AI Agents Actually Are
8:17 Building an AI “Board” for the Show
9:12 AI Found What I Was Missing
9:49 When AI Makes 10x More Connections
10:41 The GPT-4 “Code Red” Moment
12:29 This Changes the Entire Industry
13:40 The Hackathon That Changed Everything
14:50 Why AI Tools Are Finally Usable
15:39 Building Agents Without Coding
16:52 When AI Tells You NOT to Use AI
17:12 Build With AI, Run With Code
18:30 Why AI Fluency Matters Now
19:32 You Have a Ferrari (But Can’t Use It)
20:18 AI Raises the Floor AND the Ceiling
21:57 Where AI Is Headed Next
22:55 One Person Can Do Everything
24:07 Why Cheap Code Changes Everything
25:23 Automating Work With Zapier
26:29 AI Writing My Emails for Me
28:10 Faster Feedback Loops
29:06 What to Do at 13, 23, and 53
32:06 Everyone Starts at the Same Line
33:42 Adapt or Get Left Behind
34:49 Is College Still Worth It?
38:28 Automate Your Job Away
39:30 My Weekly AI That Reviews My Work
40:48 From 2 Hours → 10 Minutes
41:29 AI “Second Set of Eyes”
43:43 When Humans Must Stay in the Loop
44:08 The “Lethal Trifecta” Risk
46:12 How Safe AI Systems Will Work
49:20 What Jobs Are Actually at Risk
51:41 Why Engineers Are More Valuable Now
53:20 How AI Changes Teaching
56:22 The Future Role of Humans
58:35 What We’ll Miss About This Moment