Airtable, valued at $1.1 billion, is carving out a new product category that could compete with cloud computing in value. The founder of Airtable, Howie Liu, joins Azeem Azhar to discuss what creating a new market category looks like in practice.
They also discuss:
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<li>How Airtable is democratizing software development.</li>
<li>Why investors were initially skeptical, and how Howie got them on board.</li>
<li>How Airtable treats its competition, including the tech giants.</li>
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Further reading:
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<li>“<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2018/11/15/move-slow-and-make-things-airtables-howie-liu-built-a-1b-software-giant-emphasizing-substance-over-speed/#195b148f1f20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Move Slow and Make Things: Airtable’s Howie Liu Built A $1B Software Giant Emphasizing Substance Over Speed</a>” (Forbes, 2018)</li>
<li>“<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50138290" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No-one understood our idea, but now it’s worth over $1bn“ </a>” (BBC, Nov. 4, 2019)</li>
<li>“<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/people-changing-tech-industry-2019-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">100 People Transforming Business“ </a>” (Business Insider, 2019)</li>
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