About
Mike Knoop is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as the co-founder of Zapier, the leading no-code automation platform he launched in 2011 with Wade Foster and Bryan Helmig during a Startup Weekend in Columbia, Missouri. Starting as a side project accepted into Y Combinator, Zapier grew into a remote-first unicorn connecting thousands of apps to automate workflows for millions of users. Knoop has held key roles including Head of AI, President, and product leadership, driving innovations in AI integration and agents. Passionate about advancing toward AGI, he co-founded the ARC Prize—a major competition to benchmark progress on abstraction and reasoning—and serves on Zapier's board while exploring new ventures in intelligence science.
