Howie Liu
23 statements across 3 episodes · 8 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 2, 2017 by Max Gazor · said 17 times in 11 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (7), Max Gazor (4), Jason Lemkin (2), Immad Akhund (2), Nikesh Arora (1), Everett Randle (1)
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2026 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2025 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
- 20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability
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2019 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Howie Liu, oldest first
Aug 2, 2017 bullish
Max Gazor invested in Airtable when the company had three employees
“I invested in Airtable when it was three people and really going back to the conviction and how we build conviction. Yeah, I met Howie, I met the team and I just fell in love with them and immediately and knew that they're going to build a very, very big compa…”
Apr 27, 2020
Howie Liu: Treat advice meetings as open-ended exploration, not confirmation
“And yet I still found it extremely valuable to talk to the folks that I could write and always treat every introduction, every learning opportunity as a chance to not just kind of go and confirm something I already believed in or knew, but really treat it as m…”
Apr 27, 2020
Howie Liu: Providing strategic context is the hardest and most vital leadership duty
“What really then becomes the bottleneck in success is, I think, ensuring that everybody has the right strategic context, not just given the specific tactical instruction of do this very narrow problem, but really has the broader framework of understanding why …”
Apr 27, 2020 positive
Liu: Peter Fenton excels by combining systems thinking with human empathy
“Yeah, what makes Peter special as a investor, and more importantly, as a thought partner to, I think, the CEOs, the portfolio companies that he gets involved with as a helpful partner, is he's basically, on one hand, very much a systems thinker, right? There a…”
Apr 27, 2020 bullish
Apr 27, 2020 bullish
Liu: Airtable Will Evolve Beyond Spreadsheets Into Full Custom App Platform
“And I think the next five years are really about us Taking that starting point and really further bolstering and extending what you can build on top of Airtable. And namely, I think to offer more layers of customization into the platform itself so that when it…”
Apr 27, 2020
Apr 27, 2020 positive
Liu: Ray Tonzing Was Airtable's First Investor Before Company Founded
“I'm pretty sure it was Ray Tonzing, and in fact, Ray had even told me before Before I officially started working on Airtable, that since we had known each other through my prior company, that he was eager and excited to invest, and I think he even verbally com…”
Apr 27, 2020
Apr 27, 2020
Liu: Founders should extract context and critical questions from investors, not answers
“I think it comes down to getting the valuable context rather than a specific answer. You know, I think that the best investors or thought partners in general are really those who, if you were to ask them, well, how much should we charge for a product or should…”
Aug 25, 2023
Howie Liu: Airtable Signed Its First $1M ARR Contract in 2019
“I think it happened fairly early for us. I would, I think probably 2019 roughly. So maybe a year after we got our unicorn valuation you know, that was four years after launch admittedly, and we had gotten a lot of PLD adoption. We were well at the, you know, m…”
Aug 25, 2023
Howie Liu: Airtable Neglected Go-To-Market Strategy in Its Early Days
“In hindsight, we didn't think enough about go to market model in the early days of the company, we just focused on building a good product and, you know, happily and luckily that was good enough to get us to the next phase where we did start thinking about go …”
Aug 25, 2023 bullish
Aug 25, 2023 positive
Howie Liu: AI Services Companies Will Guide Early Enterprise Adoption
“I think services companies will definitely play a very important role. For how long and how much of the cake they take versus application companies, your guess is as good as mine. But I think especially in these early innings, the services companies are going …”
Aug 25, 2023 neutral
Howie Liu: OpenAI Lacks Self-Hosted Deployment for Enterprise Infrastructure
“OpenAI, for instance has an amazing model offering but right now they don't have a way for you to deploy in a, you know, self-hosted way inside your own infrastructure if that's something that, that you care about, right?”
Aug 25, 2023 bullish
Howie Liu: Generative AI Will Be More Disruptive Than Cloud Computing
“I think with Gen AI, we're gonna see more and more use cases get you know, get powered by AI, right? And it's gonna attack all these different functions, industries, et cetera piece by piece, and so the total amount of disruption in that is, I think, just a lo…”
Aug 25, 2023 neutral
Howie Liu: Slack and Dropbox Function as Vertical Products
“Some horizontal products are actually, you know, a vertical of their own, right? When I think about, you know, a Slack or a Dropbox, I think they actually fall into a very well-defined category in my mind. Like, You know what you're going to use Slack for. You…”
Aug 25, 2023 neutral
Howie Liu: Software Companies Under $1B Revenue Are Still Upstarts
“I think any company sub one billion in revenue is, is is an upstart compared to the enterprise type, you know, whether you're Salesforce or service now, or obviously you know, the big thing companies, we're just still operating at a much smaller, leaner scale …”
Aug 25, 2023 neutral
Howie Liu: Enterprise AI Adoption Will Be Iterative, Not a Massive Wave
“Personally, I don't know if there's anything particularly special about next year. I mean, I think every month, That goes by enterprises are getting more savvy about AI. You know, I'm seeing it in my conversations with enterprises, you know, today versus three…”
Aug 25, 2023 neutral
Howie Liu: Enterprise AI Adoption Remains in an Early Education Phase
“And there's also just a you know, we're still in the education phase where I think every enterprise is, is getting savvy as we speak or trying to get savvy as we speak in terms of what is, you know, what is an LLM? You know, what are these basic primitives, ri…”
Aug 25, 2023
Howie Liu: $1M ARR Is the True Threshold for Real Enterprise Accounts
“In my mind you know, in, in my crash course on enterprise that I've gained over the past 10 years of you know, of, you know, doing the PLG thing and then shifting into an enterprise centric model, I think a million dollar logo is really the threshold of being …”
Aug 25, 2023 bearish
Howie Liu: Enterprises Are Nowhere Near Mass AI Deployment Yet
“So we are nowhere near, in my opinion, the tornado of every enterprise just knows they want AI in, in in heaps and is very ready to go and grow their own resources at deploying AI into every quarter of the company, right? Maybe that'll happen. Maybe the train …”