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Liu: Agentic AI builders will replace legacy business software within years
“Every single business Should be creating apps this way and probably replacing is, you know over the next few years, like old legacy software with this.”
Howie Liu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 36:33 Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder
Opinion
Puri: Airtable Cannot Reach $100B Without Replacing Excel
“So air table air table, it would have to basically replace Excel in the corporate world for it to do this. Otherwise it will not be a hundred billion dollar company.”
Shaan Puri Mar 12, 2020 ▶ 43:39 Nicotine Gum, Dating Apps for the Elderly & Vested Shares Tax | My First Million Podcast 03-03-2020
Insight
Puri: Unbundling Excel's calculation engine is a massive startup opportunity
“What Airtable did was Airtable took the part of Excel that's just rows of information, and they made that sexy. But what they didn't do is calculation. People use Excel for calculation and charting, and Airtable doesn't do that. So if you did the calculation a…”
Shaan Puri Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 26:54 How to Navigate the Upcoming Depression | My First Million Podcast | 03-24-2020
Disclosure
Liu: Airtable auto-generates HeyGen avatar videos directly from database rows
“We actually have a setup internally where we can now generate an avatar video powered by HeyGen automatically from content in a row of Airtable.”
Howie Liu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 3:59 Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder
Disclosure
Gil: Invested in Notion, Airtable, and Retool without a thesis
“I invested in Notion, Airtable, and Retool within, I don't know, two years of each other, whatever the time frame was. But at the time, there was no low code, no code. Kind of thesis. It was just, these are really interesting founders working in interesting ar…”
Elad Gil Oct 8, 2024 ▶ 15:12 How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview
Assertion Supported
Airtable raised funding at a $5.7B valuation in 2021
“Since 21, they raised money at a 5.7 billion dollar valuation.”
Sam Parr Sep 17, 2021 ▶ 26:27 12 Startups Where Stock Grants Can Make You a Millionaire | My First Million #220
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