Founder Profile
Emmett Nicholas
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Emmett Nicholas?
Emmett Nicholas is a founder of Airtable, which was founded in 2012 with Howie Liu and Andrew Ofstad.
- Company founded
- Airtable
- Founded
- 2012
- Co-founders
- Howie Liu and Andrew Ofstad
Background
Software engineer at Google and Stack Overflow.
Founding Story
Emmett Nicholas co-founded Airtable alongside Howie Liu and Andrew Ofstad. He built the foundational architecture of the platform's real-time collaboration engine, allowing massive teams to simultaneously edit complex databases without data corruption or latency, a critical feature that allowed Airtable to replace legacy enterprise software. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
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- About Airtable (Airtable)
- Airtable Secures $735M to Expand Connected Apps Platform (Airtable)