Apache Airflow

6 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 18, 2025 by Viraj Parekh · said 47 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Dec 18, 2025 neutral
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Parekh: Prospects Were More Interested in Astronomer's Airflow Backend Than Its Product
“And this funny thing started to happen where we tell customers what our product was powered by, and they'd be more interested in that than the product itself.”
Viraj Parekh Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 10:58 He killed a $100K ARR product & pivoted—then raised $375M. | Viraj Parekh, Co-Founder of Astronomer · PMF Show
Dec 18, 2025
Disclosure
Astronomer Originally Launched as a Segment Competitor Before Pivoting to Airflow
“So astronomer focused on the airflow company started in 2018, and it kind of grew out of previously astronomer. The company had started before, and we were focused on something else. We were building a clickstream product. So if you know, like the company segm…”
Viraj Parekh Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 5:51 He killed a $100K ARR product & pivoted—then raised $375M. | Viraj Parekh, Co-Founder of Astronomer · PMF Show
Dec 18, 2025
Disclosure
Astronomer First Used Airflow as Hidden Backend Infrastructure
“The first version we built of that product, we built that backend orchestration piece. We used a cloud native service for that, something called SWF, Simple Workflows. And that was good, but what we found was we needed something a lot more dynamic, and we need…”
Viraj Parekh Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 7:18 He killed a $100K ARR product & pivoted—then raised $375M. | Viraj Parekh, Co-Founder of Astronomer · PMF Show
Dec 18, 2025
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Astronomer: Most successful cold email targeted Apache Airflow users directly
“In fact, now that you're saying it, I think our most successful email campaign was the subject client was Don't open this email unless you use Apache Airflow. Like, that was the subject line we used.”
Viraj Parekh Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 33:02 He killed a $100K ARR product & pivoted—then raised $375M. | Viraj Parekh, Co-Founder of Astronomer · PMF Show
Dec 18, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Parekh: Astronomer had $100K to $400K ARR before Airflow pivot
“Somewhere in the hundred to 400 range.”
Viraj Parekh Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 14:50 He killed a $100K ARR product & pivoted—then raised $375M. | Viraj Parekh, Co-Founder of Astronomer · PMF Show
Dec 18, 2025
Insight
Parekh: Customer willingness to pay beats market size studies
“Like you could have every internal conversation that you want. You can kind of debate things to no end. You can look at studies about market size and so on and so forth. But when people who are willing to pay say, I will pay you if you can give me an easy butt…”
Viraj Parekh Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 17:10 He killed a $100K ARR product & pivoted—then raised $375M. | Viraj Parekh, Co-Founder of Astronomer · PMF Show
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