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WadeF

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About WadeF

Co-founder & CEO at Zapier (YC S12)

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    Comment #35278297

    Email your use case: wade at zapier dot com. Happy to take a look.

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    Zapier | Many Roles | 100% Remote | https://zapier.com/about/ We've got about 60 people working 100% remote to build the easiest way to setup workflows and integrations between pop…

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    Comment #12852469

    P2 wasn't working for us. We wanted something that used the same authentication as Zapier so it could just be one account. We also had a few other features we wanted to customize a…

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    Comment #12850264

    I suppose that is true in the narrow case of SF/NYC. We're working to grow profits to make it so that isn't the case in the couple places that have the highest cost of living in th…

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    Comment #12850234

    Most of these started as one off blog posts. After a while we built up enough chapters that it didn't seem like it would be that farfetched to make a book. So we filled in the gaps…

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    Comment #12850217

    Yep! Here you go: https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Guide-Remote-Work-Manage-ebo...

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    We absolutely hire based on merit. People are living in rural areas making a great salary because we pay mostly fixed to Chicago market. We don't downsize your salary. But sometime…

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    Great question. Another section of the book we need to update. We have quite a few folks with kids (maybe half?) and a 14 week parental leave when you have a kid or adopt a kid. We…

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    I think all of the above?

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    Comment #12848804

    We tried Sqwiggle for a bit, but honestly didn't take to it very well. Basically it's Slack, Async and Zoom for us these days and it does the trick.

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    We get asked this a lot and unfortunately don't have any immediate plans to release it in any way. It's pretty tied into Zapier and would involve a decent chunk of work to decouple…

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    Yeah. This stuff is hard when you're a startup and can't pay Google rates. But as we've grown we've generally been able to grow salaries so folks are above market in the market the…

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    Great question. I've been meaning to update the book to include a chapter on this. The short version is it's mostly fixed to Chicago rates. We do have a fixed bump for folks in SF/…

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    Sure thing. Send me an email and I can work on scheduling something. wade at zapier.

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    We have on institutional VC and no outside board. Remote is more and more common especially with engineering and support teams so they didn't have any pushback. I think if we weren…

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    Comment #12846393

    Hi HN! Co-founder & CEO of Zapier here. We wrote this book a little over a year ago. It's mostly up-to-date though there's a few things I need to update. I'm unavailable for about …

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    You can read it free here: https://zapier.com/learn/the-ultimate-guide-to-remote-workin... Can also get it on Amazon free here: https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Guide-Remote-Work-Ma…

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