Howie Liu
Co-Founder & CEO @ Airtable
Co-founder & CEO of Airtable. Restructured the company around AI and codes daily as an IC CEO.
“How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI, covering AI product work, product design, and strategic decision-making.”
Career History
| Company | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Airtable | Co-Founder & CEO | 2013-present |
| Salesforce | Product Lead, Social CRM (via Etacts acquisition) | 2010-2012 |
| Etacts | Co-Founder (acquired by Salesforce) | 2009-2010 |
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“I'm so excited. Thank you, Lenny. I've been a listener from afar for a while now.”
How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
“Yeah. Well, I think I learned about memes and morality very quickly in that experience. Not a very good social media person, but I think I learned a little more.”
How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
“I'm just kidding. It's like how we have personally taken down the cashflow profile of the business.”
How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
“A lot of interest, a lot of early usage, but then sometimes the challenge is how do you turn that into more durable growth and get each of those adoption seeds to retain and expand over time.”
How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
“And if not, how do you add in the right human workflow for approval and review, and the reprompting and so on? So just so many different design decisions, and you need somebody who can really think fu...”
How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
“That's insane. In how many years? A few years.”
How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
“What I found is that it really does become more about individual attitude and maybe some polymathism. There's a strong advantage to any of those three roles who can kind of cross over into the other t...”
How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
“Sometimes it ends up being ... and I think they only recently exposed it. It ends up being something on the order of a dollar plus per research call, which-”
How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
“... I mean, again, exactly. I mean, some people would say, oh my god, that's so expensive, and you rack up 50 of those, you've cost $50 a month. I think it's like, well, it just saved you hours of res...”
How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
“If he was being smart he would be using deep research and they just collected [inaudible 01:03:33]”
How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
“Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I hadn't heard that before, but that completely resonates.”
How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
“For sure. Yeah, multiple times an hour, if possible.”
How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)