Airtable
Leadership History
1 leader · 2012 to present
Howie Liu is the CEO of Airtable.
| Name | Role | From | To | Years in role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Howie Liu | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | 2012 | 2026 | 14 |
Airtable lets teams store connected records, view them in different layouts, create interfaces, and automate work. The company describes its platform as a way for people closest to a business process to build the systems they need. Its current offering also includes AI-assisted application building and agents. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Airtable sells cloud software subscriptions. Its plans provide different collaboration, administration, automation, app-building, and AI capabilities, while a free plan supports initial use. Airtable said in December 2022 that enterprise customers represented the majority of revenue. Detailed segment revenue and profit figures are not publicly disclosed.
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
2012 – 2026
14 years
Liu fiercely resisted early acquisition offers, instead raising massive venture capital (valuing the company at $11.7 billion) to aggressively push Airtable into enterprise software markets.
As the founding CEO, he led the company's strategic pivot from a consumer productivity app into a massive B2B platform used by Fortune 500 companies to build custom software without coding.
Airtable competes with work-management, spreadsheet, database, and low-code application platforms. It also has to balance self-service adoption with enterprise governance and support. The company reduced its workforce by 254 employees in December 2022 and by another 237 employees in September 2023 while concentrating resources on larger enterprise customers.
Co-founder Howie Liu served as Airtable CEO before Bending Spoons completed the acquisition in September 2026.
The closing announcement does not name a standalone Airtable CEO. It refers to Howie Liu as co-founder and Luca Ferrari as CEO of Bending Spoons.
Airtable announced departures in its people, product, and customer-experience leadership while restructuring around large enterprise customers.
Co-founder Howie Liu is the CEO, known for his relentless focus on product design and the no-code enterprise movement.
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