“The features we have since added were all part of the original vision we had set out to execute against.”Īirtable was built over three years, which Balani contrasted to the “conventional wisdom these days” of launching startups very quickly. “In 2012 we made an internal vision deck that had a rough business plan and basically described our five-plus year roadmap,” he said. He founded Airtable one year later in early 2013. He then began working at Salesforce, where he said he learned things critical to the founding of Airtable. Still, his entrepreneurial endeavors started early with his first venture in 2010, a next-generation customer relationship management system called Etacts. He added that he was “somewhat disappointed” that he graduated in 2009 without finding one. Airtable now has over $600 million in funding, according to event moderator Ravi Balani, and a mission to “democratize software creation by enabling anyone to build the tools that meet their needs,” according to the company website.ĭuring the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar sponsored by the Stanford Technology Venture Program and BASES, Liu said that he went into undergrad at Duke University searching for a drop-out worthy idea. Liu and his co-founders, Andrew Ofstad and Emmett Nicholas, spent three years building Airtable, a cloud collaboration platform that combines spreadsheets and databases, before its launch in 2015. Airtable co-founder and CEO Howie Liu said that establishing a clear vision during a company’s early stages and being patient are vital to a new business’s success at a Wednesday event.
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