Howie Liu
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Cofounder/CEO @ Airtable
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Joined May 2008
🌠Today, we’re excited to relaunch Airtable as the AI-native app platform, combining the magic of vibe coding business apps with real production-readiness and scalability, and embedding them with an army of agents that automate thousands of hours of work in seconds. Instead of
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Standard Bots — Vertically integrated, American-made AI-native robots. $12M RR, 10x YoY, 10x F500 customers. Series C now. Let's build.
We’re growing — fast. Standard Bots is expanding our U.S. factory from 16,000 to 25,000 sq ft to meet surging demand and better serve local manufacturers. Building local is how we strengthen American manufacturing from the ground up.
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Enjoyed chatting with @Joubinmir about refounding Airtable in the AI era!
Howie Liu (@howietl) sold his first startup to Salesforce at 22. Today he’s the CEO of @airtable, the no-code platform trusted by teams at AWS, Walmart, HBO, TIME, Dropbox. He talks with host @Joubinmir on Kleiner Perkins Grit Podcast about finding product-market fit,
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We’re giving builders in every company superpowers in the form of AI app building and agentic automation. These builders are front row to real-world business needs, and they are the best-positioned to iterate and solve them with AI apps. The transformation of every company is
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When the cost of making (and continually evolving) apps drops to zero, everything changes. Companies will build exactly what they need rather than settling for rigid off-the-shelf software. The new default: AI-generated apps + built-in AI agents working 24/7. What’s needed in
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Airtable is the AI-native platform for building trusted AI apps to accelerate business operations and deploy embedded AI agents at enterprise scale.
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The AI-native Airtable is live now at https://t.co/gAQlDOOwE2 for new users, and existing users can switch over with this link: https://t.co/bnGYYcuJI2 Every plan, including free, gets these AI capabilities + generous AI usage credits. We're disrupting our own pricing model
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Field Agents automate thousands of hours of work in seconds: → Research every conference attendee with background info → Monitor brand mentions across all digital channels → Extract strategy insights from every product requirement doc → Generate competitive intelligence
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This isn't just a thin table wrapper around AI calls. You can build apps that chain together multiple AI steps with human interactions in a complete operational system of record + engagement. It’s all built on Airtable’s enterprise-grade platform foundation, which now supports
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But here's the real unlock: any app you build with Airtable comes with an army of AI workers embeddable into your data, automating thousands of hours of work in seconds. • Sales call transcripts → automatic extraction of feature requests, pain points, competitor mentions •
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You can also use Omni to automate quotidian tasks, like a VC partner taking notes from a startup pitch meeting and turning them into a structured entry in their deal tracking app.
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And Omni is more than just an app builder. It can also answer any business question about your data using advanced reasoning, and do LLM mapreduce across large datasets to understand patterns and trends: → "What are the biggest customer pain points across 10K support tickets?"
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Omni builds robust apps conversationally: • Build me a VC deal tracker with automated research on each portfolio company" • Create a marketing campaign manager that monitors all relevant competitors • Set up a contract analyzer for all music artists at the label with risk
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We solved this with Omni, our new AI app building agent that uses production-ready Airtable components. You get the magic of conversational app building BUT can see and understand everything down to the data, logic, and interface layers – and edit through point-and-click. It’s
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We launched Airtable in 2015 with the mission of democratizing software creation. In the AI era, this mission is more timely than ever – as validated by the recent rise of vibe coding (@cursor_ai @windsurf_ai @v0 @lovable @Replit @boltdotnew) as a killer use case of AI. Building
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We are at the most transformative economic shift of our generation as the AI revolution unfolds – yet there's a critical implementation gap. Only 6% of US companies report using AI in regular production today. The winners of the next decade will be determined by who closes this
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Airtable Assistant is rolling out in beta to eligible customers over the next week. Learn more: https://t.co/CVEuYyqb6v To see it in action, join our product team for a live demo and Q&A on April 17th, at 10a.m. PT.
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Join us on April 17th at 10 am PT to meet Airtable AI Assistant, your personal app builder, data analyst, and web researcher.
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Today, we’re live in NYC introducing builders to Airtable Assistant and sharing how AI is transforming how our customers work – from marketing teams analyzing campaign performance to product teams processing thousands of feedback records.
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We’re also introducing a new AI capability that turns Airtable into your personal fleet of thousands of web researchers that work on your data around the clock. With AI web search, you can now create fields that automatically search the web to gather competitive intelligence,
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You can also talk to the Assistant like it's an expert at both building and about your business domain, and say what you want it to do. Let’s say you want to provide the leadership team at Universal Atlantic Records with key insights they need from these contracts in an easily
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