Co-founder, @airtable

Joined July 2008
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2 Oct 2024
Congrats to the Reducto team!
2 Oct 2024
Today, @reductoai is helping hundreds of AI teams ingest tens of millions of pages every month, and we’re excited to announce that we’ve raised an $8.4M seed round led by @firstround to continue on our mission of making human data LLM-ready. (1/7)
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24 Jul 2024
Really excited to launch this today!! This represents the second of two ways in which we're disrupting ourselves with AI. The first, which we launched in March, was about making Airtable the easiest way to deploy the leading LLMs into departmental data and workflows. The second, today's launch, is about using AI to *build* apps. AI app-building will radically tilt the "build custom app vs buy prebuilt solution" equation in favor of the former. Traditional enterprise software development is expensive and slow, but its even greater problem is the disconnect that results between the software developers building an app and the business stakeholders who need the app. The entire founding premise of Airtable and the no code category we pioneered is to enable the people closest to their own business context and requirements to build the apps they need, and to easily change them as the requirements evolve. Especially in industries and functions undergoing a high rate of transformation (eg media, tech, retail, finserv), this approach is critical for companies to stand up the operations they need to adapt and execute on this new era. For instance, retailers spinning up digital commerce operations and the resultant omnichannel approach marketing. Or media companies building up their streaming operations and overall accelerating their pace and volume of content production, as well as marketing operations. The magic of applying AI to the app building problem is that modern LLMs already come pretrained with an understanding of these industry dynamics and the rough shape of the operations needed to execute in this era. And can be guided to combine that context with the more specific requirements of a business unit owner to instantly generate a useful, highly specific app. Best of all, when the app is generated as a no code app, all of its data, logic, and interface structure are made easily understood and directly manipulable by the customer. Unlike with AI-generated software code, which is understandable/inspectable/editable only by developers. That's why we're calling it Cobuilder. The best way to leverage LLMs to build applications for a business use case is to bring the AI generation and human user as close together as possible, with no code as the common language between them. My cofounder @aofstad will remember my decade-ago ruminations about a future in which you could “talk to Airtable to have it build your app.” A decade and 50M Airtable apps later… this is by far the biggest accelerant to deliver on that mission. To the entire community of team members, customers, and Airtable builders that have gotten us here, thank you. And I couldn't be more excited to join together on the next decade ahead! Try it here! We even allow you to generate an app pre-signup : ) airtable.com/platform/app-bu…

24 Jul 2024
Introducing Airtable Cobuilder, the fastest way to build no-code applications. Every person, on every team, can create apps that are intuitive, customizable, and impactful—in moments: ow.ly/jNHc50SJlXK
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Sure, LLMs are cool, but to actually extract business value from them, they need to live alongside your data and integrate deeply into your workflows. I'm psyched to finally share @airtable AI publicly - a suite of features designed precisely for this! x.com/airtable/status/177264…

26 Mar 2024
✨ Unlock your unknown with Airtable AI ✨ 🤖 We're excited to launch a new suite of AI features that allow any team to rapidly unlock the value of AI. With Airtable AI, teams can augment critical workflows and ultimately, increase revenue by making better decisions, faster: airtable.com/platform/ai
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So excited to share this product with the world! I’m proud of what our team built—in less than a year Built by some of the finest product engineers I’ve worked with. Always doing extra, always thinking about the user, always practicing & perfecting their craft
9 Nov 2021
📢 Today we're thrilled to announce Interface Designer: Our new offering to create complete and customized applications with Airtable. Get the details here 👉 blog.airtable.com/introducin… and watch this space for more info and resources to come!
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14 Sep 2020
Three BIG updates today that we've been heads down on for some time. Proud of the team and excited to see what our customers will build!
14 Sep 2020
We want to help create more software builders, not just software users. With our new platform, you can create fully customized applications, build more interconnected teams, and benefit from a community of people who share what they create. Let’s dig in ⬇️ blog.airtable.com/airtable-p…
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This --> a big deal. Just a few years ago, we had to kick down doors for testing at top-tier institutions. Very proud to be launching this tonight. blog.color.com/from-the-huma…

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Did @airtable pay more, or less, for this placement behind construction?
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5 Feb 2018
Introducing: our new homepage! 🎊 airtable.com/home
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.@Airtable co-founder and CEO @howietl on embracing unintended customers, eschewing excess, and building a “neural net” for advice. amzn.to/2DH7pxz
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Maybe you’ve seen some “Best of 2017” lists... but have you seen a list of the best lists of 2017? 🤔 airtable.com/universe/expvvA…

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Just a *Giant 300 list of UX books* designerhangout.co/books Did we miss a book? Let us know :) Thank you @airtable 🙌
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Been working on this for the past few weeks. Absolutely FLOORED by the creativity of Airtable users. Go check out what they've created! x.com/airtable/status/913411…

28 Sep 2017
Airtable Universe is live! Wonder how other people use Airtable? Now you can find out. Head over to start exploring! airtable.com/universe
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28 Apr 2017
✒️ 📈 looking to develop an effective, scalable content pipeline? @airtable @zoelle have the master plan 👍 >> goo.gl/xg3Tbo

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8 Feb 2017
Should Zapier UX Researcher @roboto get an @airtable tattoo?
79% Definitely
21% Sleep on it
39 votes • Final results
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Had a blast chatting design tools with @rsms @aofstad @davestinnette @ashsmash & @jenniferbrook at @DropboxDesign last night.
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Wrote a post about iterating on prototypes in @airtable j.mp/2kAazM4

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17 Jan 2017
14 teams share how they're organizing ideas, projects, and people with database tool @airtable @zapier zpr.io/PzQky #tips
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7 Nov 2016
These cards are stacked in your favor 🗃. Introducing kanban view: medium.com/@airtable/kanban-…
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17 Oct 2016
Airtable engineer @matt_bush explains how we managed the move to @reactjs (and why we made it): airtable.news/how-airtable-u…

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