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How Airtable Turned Spreadsheets Into a Platform
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the story of Airtable — how a small team in San Francisco took the humble spreadsheet and reimagined it as a collaborative, visual database platform. They explore what made it click: the early focus on design and developer APIs, the pivot from consumer to enterprise, and the counterintuitive decision to stay focused on a single product while rivals chased feature sprawl. Along the way, they unpack specific metrics like the company's path to 300,000 paying organizations, its $11 billion valuation at peak, and how it carved out a category between…
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