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Opinion
Morin: AI makes lightweight UI tools like Airtable and Retool obsolete
“The reality of Airtable and tools like it Is that AI has made it, you know, there's like other businesses that were really, really flying, like in the Airtable days, like Retool and these kind of lightweight UI layers that made it easier to interact with datab…”
Dave Morin Aug 7, 2026 ▶ 25:34 Jeff Dean Leaves Google, Airtable Sells, and the Bag-Securing Era · More or Less Podcast
Insight
Lessin: Late-stage VCs only accept steep discounts if spinouts retain AI upside
“The reason this never happens is because big fancy investors, not us lowly seed investors, but big fancy ones, have no interest in the write down, right? It's a massive write down, right, for them. And they'd rather just stick it on their books and pretend lik…”
Sam Lessin Aug 7, 2026 ▶ 23:49 Jeff Dean Leaves Google, Airtable Sells, and the Bag-Securing Era · More or Less Podcast
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lessin: Bending Spoons will milk enterprise contracts and cut support to zero
“These things have big enterprise contracts. They're going to like milk those. They're going to Like, hack the CS, the customer support teams to zero because they can consolidate it.”
Sam Lessin Aug 7, 2026 ▶ 27:34 Jeff Dean Leaves Google, Airtable Sells, and the Bag-Securing Era · More or Less Podcast
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2031
Lessin: Users will stick with Airtable because of browser auto-complete habit
“Because they're thinking, because they type A on their keyboard, and it auto completes to Airtable.com, and so they will keep using it.”
Sam Lessin Aug 7, 2026 ▶ 29:14 Jeff Dean Leaves Google, Airtable Sells, and the Bag-Securing Era · More or Less Podcast
Disclosure
Sam Lessin: Slow Ventures invested $3M in Airtable at $90M valuation
“So I put a three million dollar check into Airtable at a 90 post in between rounds early on, because this is now probably in 2012 ish, maybe that era.”
Sam Lessin Aug 7, 2026 ▶ 19:57 Jeff Dean Leaves Google, Airtable Sells, and the Bag-Securing Era · More or Less Podcast
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