This week on Found, Dom and Becca talk with Howie Liu, the CEO and co-founder of Airtable to talk about how the Airtable team used smart UX to make app development accessible to even the least technical users. Liu discusses how human-computer interaction is at the core of Airtable’s mission and behind each new product they put out. They also get into early missteps, the investor advice that Liu didn’t follow, and the unlikely inspiration behind Airtable’s design.
Listen to the full episode to hear about:
- How Airtable has taken the common spreadsheet to empower users to build functional apps
- How the “take your own software to work” movement worked as organic marketing for Airtable
- The surprising inspiration behind Airtable’s design
- Airtable’s practical approach to machine learning
- What could be next for the profitable company
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