Airtable held zero status meetings for the Interface Designer launch
Archana Agrawal · The Secrets to Building Your Marketing Engine To Drive Scale with Airtable CMO Archana Agrawal · May 28, 2022 · at 3:28
Airtable CMO Archana Agrawal discusses the operational process and cross-functional workflow used during the launch of Interface Designer.
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“And during the course of that launch, I had zero status meetings, and I'm really proud of that.”
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