Andrew Ofstad

Andrew Ofstad holds a strong background in computer science, product management, and user experience design. He spent his critical formative career at Google, where he led product initiatives for Google Maps and Android, learning how to build and scale products used by millions. This background in consumer-grade product design provided the exact expertise needed to build an enterprise database tool that completely abstracted away its underlying technical complexity.

Andrew Ofstad is the co-founder of Airtable, serving as the company's chief product visionary and driving its renowned, highly intuitive user interface. Before starting Airtable with Howie Liu and Emmett Nicholas in 2013, Ofstad honed his product management skills at Google, where he worked on complex mapping and mobile projects. At Airtable, Ofstad fundamentally solved the complex UX challenge of making a relational database feel as friendly and accessible as a consumer app. His relentless focus on design, usability, and empowering end-users without requiring them to write code is widely credited as the primary reason Airtable achieved massive viral adoption across both small startups and massive enterprise teams.