“My one big tip for any of these business side roles is you still need to get close to the product. Nothing bothers me more than people that work at companies and never use their own products.” Zapier’s Corp Dev Lead Austin Johnsen on how AI is changing h

“My one big tip for any of these business side roles is you still need to get close to the product. Nothing bothers me more than people that work at companies and never use their own products.” Zapier’s Corp Dev Lead Austin Johnsen on how AI is changing h

It’s fun to watch folks without engineering backgrounds go DIY with AI taking the lead. My friend Austin Johnsen leads CorpDev at Zapier and in recent months I noticed his LinkedIn posts detailing the tools he built for the job. So I figured it would be a good opportunity to learn more about what he’s discovering. And thus, Five Questions. Hunter Walk: How do you explain Zapier to people not in tech, how’d you end up there, and what’s your role …