Howie Liu

"with ChatGPT for instance, we have a kind of a first-class integration where you can go in through ChatGPT and like interact with your data in Airtable"

"And so we took an acquisition by Salesforce, worked there"

"we use Stripe for payments"

"We're hosted on AWS"

"I stumbled on Y Combinator actually like pretty early on. It was like maybe '06"

"in high school I kind of got into programming like my dad had this C++ book"

"learned how to do web app programming like first with PHP, then like Rails"

"learned how to do web app programming like first with PHP, then like Rails and stuff"

"That's basically all that Oracle is used for. That's basically what SAP is. That's what Salesforce is"

"FileMaker, Microsoft Access, like some of these products existed back in the day, but never made the transition to the web"

"And then learned about YC and like Sequoia"

"I saw Loopt, Sam Altman's first company, and I was doing research like I wanted to do a similar type of company"

"Dropbox and maybe Evernote were kind of the best like PLG pioneers and they were both very like consumer prosumer first"

"it was actually weirdly a very parallel timeline to Figma. So, like both of them like 2 and 1/2 years around the same time"

"Python was around, but people didn't really use it"

"Dropbox and maybe Evernote were kind of the best like PLG pioneers and they were both very like consumer prosumer first"

"Slack had I think just come out when we launched in 2015, so they had launched a little bit before"

"FileMaker, Microsoft Access, like some of these products existed back in the day, but never made the transition to the web"

"That's basically all that Oracle is used for. That's basically what SAP is. That's what Salesforce is"