Building Business Apps with Airtable: A Lego Kit for Empowerment

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In this chapter, the guest introduces Airtable as a Lego kit to build useful business apps. They explain the inspiration behind creating Airtable and how it aims to empower every company and individual to create their own business app. The concept of Product Led Growth (PLG) is also discussed, with the guest sharing how they initially faced skepticism about the idea but eventually witnessed the success of bottoms-up adoption in the industry.

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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