howie liu, airtable // founding airtable
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AirtableHowie Liu
Data Driven NYC, April 2015
BACKGROUND
The story
People deserve more than canned soBware
SOFTWARE BUILDING BLOCKS
Building blocks to create and customize own soBware
PROGRAMMING IS NOT THE ANSWER
The real computer revolution hasn’t happened
PROGRAMMING IS NOT THE ANSWER
Software is eating the world
PROGRAMMING IS NOT THE ANSWER
Yet creation of software is limited to a small minority
MARKET
PROJECTMANAGEMENT
ERPCRM
ODE TO THE SPREADSHEET
90% of spreadsheets are just tables used for organizational purposes
PRODUCT DEMO
TECHNOLOGY & ARCHITECTURE
Going to great lengths to make experience simple = difficult tech and design challenges
(law of conservation of complexity)
API
More powerful when you can connect with outside world
ACCESSIBLE TO NORMAL END USERS
TOTAL COLUMNS CREATED
weeks
QUESTIONS?
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