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Howie Liu's first startup, Etacts, was acquired by Salesforce about one year after it started.
“my first company lasted exactly a year, um, almost to the day, from start to acquisition, right, by Salesforce.”
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During a college internship at an ad tech startup, Liu built a custom asset manager for creative assets.
“I worked for this ad tech startup. And, like, the the, um, you know, I actually ended up realizing that the most valuable thing I could do during my summer there”
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Howie Liu interned at CrowdFlower, Lukas Biewald's earlier company, which Liu describes as an early pioneer in AI training data.
“interning for your last company, CrowdFlower. It was kind of like early pioneer in in, um, uh, a lot of what would become this AI world and training data”
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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 that as a teenager during the dot-com era he signed up to beta test a smell-printing product.
“I signed up to be a beta tester for a smell printer company, right?”
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