Zapier CEO Wade Foster built an AI hiring council to stress-test a decade of his gut calls
cen6wkf · reddit · 2026-09-09
A My First Million clip details how Zapier CEO Wade Foster, whose hiring instincts nobody could out-argue for over a decade, still kept losing the post-hoc argument with reality. His fix: a formal AI hiring council that scores his read against Zapier's own hiring record and hands the same call back to the room with paperwork attached.
- He didn't ask anyone to trust AI — he asked them to trust a record that was always his
- It landed just as worker trust in AI-driven decisions is eroding elsewhere
- Core takeaway: being correct has never been the same job as being convincing
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