Airtable CEO Howie Liu on pivoting from hyper-growth to profits, AI applications, and more | E1838
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Today’s show:
Airtable CEO Howie Liu joins Jason to discuss his philosophy of product-led growth (1:35), the current explosion of AI (36:37), and much more!
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(0:00) Airtable CEO Howie Liu joins Jason
(1:35) Howie’s philosophy on product-led growth
(5:05) Bridging the gap between spreadsheets and purpose-driven apps
(7:12) Tweet storm referenced on the All-In podcast
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(17:13) Blitzscale hiring
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(26:18) Charging per-seed basis and revisiting Airtable on E814 in 2018
(30:36) Jason shares two successful use cases utilizing Airtable
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(36:37) The AI boom and its potential dangers
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| 0:00.0 | How did you know that this was peeking out? |
| 0:01.6 | Did you have some crazy moment |
| 0:02.8 | where you knew it was peeking out |
| 0:03.8 | where people were like, just offering you sick amounts |
| 0:06.6 | of money without doing diligence or? |
| 0:08.8 | I'll say one very, very big time investor |
| 0:13.2 | offered a multi-hundred dollar million round |
| 0:15.6 | on the spot, as I was teaching them. |
| 0:18.4 | Yeah, again, who knows if it wasn't come through? |
| 0:20.7 | And in the room. |
| 0:22.0 | Getting offered a couple hundred million |
| 0:24.6 | in the room during the presentation. |
| 0:26.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.4 | That is peak. |
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| 0:33.3 | Get access to lemon hire, |
| 0:35.1 | a platform with more than 80,000 |
| 0:37.5 | pre-vetted engineers |
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