Liu: Going enterprise early on would have broken Airtable's product
Howie Liu · No Priors Ep. 73 | With Airtable co-founder and CEO Howie Liu · Jul 25, 2024 · at 8:10
Airtable co-founder and CEO Howie Liu explains why Airtable delayed its enterprise push until the underlying infrastructure could handle large-scale data.
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“Had we tried to go really hard into enterprise in the first couple of years, it would have been difficult because some of the bigger, larger scale use cases Would have just broken the product.”
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