Howie Liu

9 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 20, 2015 by Howie Liu · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Apr 20, 2015
Insight
Liu: Most software is just a CRUD interface over relational databases
“The vast majority of software out there in the world is not going towards some exciting new technology or, you know, not some, you know, innovative new consumer product, but really it's a reinvention of the same wheel again and again. And that is a create, rea…”
Howie Liu Apr 20, 2015 ▶ 1:15 Howie Liu, Airtable // Founding Airtable (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Apr 20, 2015
Insight
Liu: Long-tail verticals are too small for dedicated software companies
“So there are many different long tail categories that we believe are too small of a market for any, you know, single dedicated company to really build a great vertical product around.”
Howie Liu Apr 20, 2015 ▶ 13:14 Howie Liu, Airtable // Founding Airtable (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
May 23, 2024
Disclosure
Airtable CEO Howie Liu uses Airtable as a personalized customer intelligence CRM
“I use Airtable for instance, to track, you know, a lot of earnings calls of our customers. So, you know, I kind of have my own super CRM of customers that I'm directly engaging with”
Howie Liu May 23, 2024 ▶ 14:57 How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable
May 23, 2024 negative
Opinion
Liu: Pegasystems addresses complex processes in a brittle, heavyweight manner
“Think like old school companies like Pegasystems, right. That are really tackling very complex business processes. But in a very brittle way, right? Like once you implement something on Pega, you're not iterating on that, like on a daily or even monthly or eve…”
Howie Liu May 23, 2024 ▶ 42:10 How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable
May 23, 2024 bullish
Insight
Liu: Existing AI models hold 10,000x untapped enterprise value without further upgrades
“In fact, my thesis is you could freeze all model development in its current state and say, you know what? GBD five is never going to come out. Like there's not going to be any better models. The models we have are all we're going to get for the next 10 years. …”
Howie Liu May 23, 2024 ▶ 34:13 How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable
May 23, 2024 positive
Insight
Howie Liu: No-code remains necessary because non-technical users can inspect AI output
“The fact that no code by definition means that the output of the Turing bot, the AI builder, Is actually in a form that a non-technical user can understand. So the very person who's asking the AI to generate the app can then understand fully its outputs.”
Howie Liu May 23, 2024 ▶ 27:06 How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable
May 23, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Howie Liu: AI won't fully automate complex app development before AGI
“So as long as we haven't had AGI, I don't think we will have Turing bots or AI code writers that are able to fully automate in a satisfactory way, the building of a complex app”
Howie Liu May 23, 2024 ▶ 28:38 How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable
May 23, 2024
Insight
Howie Liu: Founders should only seek advice for their immediate next phase
“What I wish I knew at the time of each of these phases is to take advice from people who are as close to the next phase, the next immediate phase of the company and the problems that we need to solve as possible versus taking advice from people who are too far…”
Howie Liu May 23, 2024 ▶ 57:08 How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable
May 23, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Howie Liu: Enterprise expansion drove as much PLG as SMBs for Airtable
“We got more virality driven by expansion within enterprises, real large companies. Right. And you know, seeing like that initial user go to five to 10 to 50 to hundreds to thousands that actually drove a lot of our PLG. So PLG actually for us happened as much …”
Howie Liu May 23, 2024 ▶ 35:46 How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable
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