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Hey it's a Zima Zazar and you're listening to exponential view my podcast about the rapid development of technologies and how they influence our

society. My guest this week is entrepreneur Howie Lou, the co-founder and CEO

of Air Table, it's a really hot Silicon Valley startup. It's achieved mythical

unicorn valuation, but how he is an unusual Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he's approaching

this in a slightly different way and I really enjoyed my conversation with him.

So please enjoy it too.

Howie, it's great to have you on the podcast.

Thank you for having me.

Aetable is a really hot company, but it may not be widely known to my audience, could you just tell us what it is and what it does?

The vision of Ertapell has always been about democratizing software as a medium,

and we just think that software as a technology has been one of the greatest

inventions of probably the past century if not more and and yet you know the people

who are able to create it are kind of limited to a very small minority.

So the goal really is to kind of find new ways

to open up the creative potential of building

your own applications, building your own software workflows

without necessarily having to go through the same arcane steps that you do today

to build applications.

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