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Airtable took roughly two and a half years to build its generally available product before public launch.
“Airtable, to your point, took probably 2 and a half years to even build the GA product that we could launch publicly.”
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The Idaho Farm Bureau published an op-ed describing Airtable as the new CattleMax, a cattle-tracking software product.
“the Idaho Farm Bureau had a op-ed in it that referenced how Airtable was the new CattleMax.”
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Liu says Airtable started around the same time as Figma, and both benefited from shifting user expectations and better web technology.
“we started around the same time as Figma, but I think what we both benefited from was both a shift in consumer”
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Airtable built a web-native, desktop-grade product using modern standards such as HTML5 and WebGL, and its own proprietary database engine.
“using a lot of the benefits of, like, HTML5, WebGL, some of the, like, just modern standards and web”
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Airtable did not launch with spreadsheet import, and added it soon afterward, along with templates, to keep growth from flattening.
“I don't think we launched with even the ability to import spreadsheets, but that was a fast follow, right?”
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Liu says Airtable's biggest customers' value can roughly double every year.
“we can compound our our biggest customers value by basically 2x every single year.”
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Liu says Airtable sees its best growth in retail, financial services, media and tech.
“we see the best growth in retail, financial services, media, uh, and tech”
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Some Airtable customers pull data from Snowflake or Databricks into Airtable to build operational workflows.
“now we have a lot of customers who are pulling in data from, for instance, Snowflake or Databricks into Airtable”
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Airtable is building a new data store to ingest data sets of several hundred million records.
“we're actually building a new data store into Airtable that will allow you t uh, allow you to ingest multi-hundred million record data sets into Airtable directly”
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Airtable launched an AI co-builder that builds an app from a user's description, and lets users generate an app before signing up.
“we just launched, uh, our AI co-builder experience.”
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Airtable reorganized its product group about nine months before the interview, moving from feature-oriented teams to teams organized around major pillars.
“we did this reorg in our product group, um, about, call it 9 months ago now”
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