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OpenAI, Slack, Figma, and Airtable all started without sales commissions
“So with OpenAI, with Slack, many other, Airtable, Figma, New Relic, there's tons of companies out there that all started with this model of full salary, and it's a, you know, a normal living salary like you would give to any other product manager, marketer, en…”
Liu: Airtable raised a $3M seed round at a $6M pre-money valuation
“We ended up raising, I think, a three million dollar round, which seemed like a lot of money at the time at a six million pre”
Marooney: 80% of the Fortune 100 Use Airtable
“I think it's, what is it, 80% of the Fortune 100 use Airtable.”
Airtable serves over 300,000 organizations and 80 percent of Fortune 100
“We started from scratch, but we also operate at scale, serving over 300,000 organizations of all shapes and sizes, including 80% of the Fortune 100.”
Marketing leaders spend 1.5 days weekly on manual tasks across 23 tools
“We ran a recent survey that showed marketing leaders spend about a day and a half in manual tasks and moving different data from different places to get the visibility that they need, that the average marketing team uses 23 tools.”
Liu: Airtable built a custom real-time relational database engine for collaboration
“We actually ended up building our own real time relational database engine in order to support the type of collaboration experience we wanted on top of it.”
Liu: Airtable spent 2.5 years building its platform instead of pivoting
“We resisted the temptation to do something quicker and easier and maybe just switch it to being like a project management tool, right? Early on that could have been like a six month effort instead of like a two and a half year effort to build before launch.”