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How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable

How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable

Update: 2024-05-231
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In this episode, we sit down with Howie Liu, co-founder and CEO of Airtable, to explore the incredible journey of Airtable from its early days to becoming a powerhouse in the enterprise software space.

Howie provides a candid look at the challenges and learnings from transitioning Airtable from a PLG product to an enterprise platform, how companies are transforming their marketing operations with AI, and the transformative potential of AI in automating workflows and enhancing business processes.

AIRTABLE
Website - https://www.airtable.com/
Twitter - https://x.com/airtable

Howie Liu
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/howieliu/
Twitter - https://x.com/howietl

FIRSTMARK
Website - https://firstmark.com
Twitter - https://twitter.com/FirstMarkCap

Matt Turck (Managing Director)
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/turck/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/mattturck

(00:00 ) Intro
(02:40 ) What is Airtable in 2024?
(05:35 ) How does Airtable apply AI to its products?
(11:56 ) What are the AI use cases in Airtable?
(18:35 ) The tech behind Airtable's AI capabilities
(22:22 ) Is Airtable going to become an AI-first company?
(25:15 ) Will AI kill programming as we know it?
(29:24 ) How do big enterprises think about AI?
(34:46 ) How did Airtable go from PLG to a large enterprise product?
(41:00 ) AI Categories
(47:47 ) "We definitely had our hiccups"
(51:20 ) Was PLG a ZIRP-era phenomenon?
(56:29 ) Howie's journey as a CEO

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How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable

How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable

Matt Turck