Podcast appearances and mentions of andrew ofstad

Ravi Parikh is now on his second startup venture. After having built a very successful first company, he is now working to streamline development for other businesses, so they can move faster, and focus on what matters most. The company, Airplane, has attracted funding from top-tier investors like Andrew Ofstad, Jaren Glover, Thrive Capital, and Guillermo Rauch.

Airplane, a San Francisco, CA-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) development platform, closed a $32 million Series B funding round led by Thrive Capital with participation from Benchmark, bringing the startup's total raised to $40.5 million. I interviewed Ravi Parikh, Co-Founder at Airplane. He is also the former co-founder of Heap. Ravi is on a mission to automate the harder part of admin tools in applications. This is the behind-the-scenes code necessary to run your applications. Airplane has a sales and PLG led motion. His former founder background helped with current capital raises. Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen, Confluent co-founder Neha Narkhede, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, Airtable co-founders Howie Liu and Andrew Ofstad, Allison Pickens from The New Normal Fund, Behance founder Scott Belsky, Jaren Glover, Gokul Rajaram, Liu Jiang, Comma Capital, and several others also participated in the round. The funds will be put toward growing Airplane's team while expanding its product to new markets. Founded in December 2020 Staff of 20 $40.5M Raised Sub 10M ARR SLG + PLG Developer Tools Ravi Parikh's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raviparikh2/ SaaS Fundraising Story: https://www.thesaasnews.com/news/airplane-raises-32-million-in-series-b Join my SaaS community here: https://www.thesaasacademy.com/offers/ivNjwYDx/checkout Follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrmurray

Todd Jackson's filling in as host again this week. (As a reminder, he's hosting a few product-focused episodes this season — all about finding product-market fit.) Today, Todd chats with Andrew Ofstad, co-founder of Airtable. In our conversation, we go deep into Airtable's early days, and how they navigated the journey of finding traction and scaling. Here's a preview of what Todd and Andrew cover: How the founders came together, their vision for the product, and what the initial prototypes looked like.  Airtable's alpha, beta, and launch timelines, as well as their early traction. The challenges of creating a horizontal product that can do many things, including identifying initial use cases and figuring out how to describe what they were building. How to approach pricing and competition, as well as their early go-to-market strategy. What the next 3 years will look like for Airtable, and how they've navigated scaling while staying true to their vision. Whether you're a founder validating your own idea, or a product leader looking for growth advice, there are tons of tactics here that go much deeper than the typical founding stories you hear. You can follow Andrew on Twitter at @aofstad. You can email us questions directly at review@firstround.com or follow us on Twitter @firstround and @tjack.

Andrew Ofstad, Co-founder of the world's largest no code platform, Airtable, shares how three friends from college built an $11bn dollar no code empire that more than 80% of the Fortune 100 use day to day.To learn more about Antler and how you can start your next company with us please come see us at antler.co

The Easiest Way to Set Up an Airtable Content Calendar for Social Media Are you thinking of using an Airtable Content Calendar to help you plan your social media content? If yes, then this is the Airtable tutorial that you need. A few years ago I came across Airtable and I remember thinking that it looks so flexible. I even felt a little bit apprehensive because I thought that it will take me a long time to learn how to use it. Looking back I can see why many entrepreneurs and side hustlers may think twice about using Airtable for social media. While it does look like a regular spreadsheet, Airtable has so much more flexibility and charm built in. Imagine having a tool that feels pretty much like play doh when you want to customise it. In this post, you will learn how to use Airtable as a content calendar for social media. You will also learn how to make it your own by mastering as many features as possible so that it is customised to your needs. Airtable Background If you are brand new to Airtable you can think of it as a collaboration tool that has a combination of spreadsheet and database features. Airtable was founded back in 2012 by three people; Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, and Emmett Nicholas. Since then they have managed to go through several funding rounds raising a total of $347.6 million between 2015 and 2020. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, Airtable is used by over 200,000 companies globally. With the help of Zapier, you can integrate Airtable with over 450 other applications including Instagram. According to co-founder Howie Liu, they are not trying to make a replacement for Google Sheets or Excel. They are building the next Apple or Microsoft which he says is the next billion dollar opportunity. You can take a look at Howie's video here. Airtable Components While reading up about the background of Airtable, I noticed that Howie mentioned that it has Lego-like features. To help you appreciate this even more let me introduce you to the building blocks of Airtable. In total, Airtable is made up of 6 components. These include; WorkspacesBasesTablesFieldsViewsRecords 1. Workspaces You can think of a workspace as a home for one of your departments or if you have clients, it is a place to store the bases related to a specific client. 2. Bases Each workspace can have an unlimited number of bases. The only restriction on the free plan is the total number of records per base which is 1200. You can think of each base as a group of related tables nested together. As you can see in the screenshot above all the bases related to marketing are stored in the marketing workspace. 3. Tables This is where the terminology becomes a little more familiar to you because tables are basically a spreadsheet on steroids. You can have as many tables as you want in that base. As you can see in the screenshot above this Airtable base has 5 tables. What I really like is that you can cross-link records in Airtable. Here's a screenshot where there is a link to another table in this column. 4. Fields Everything that you place in Airtable goes into a field which is also known as a cell in Excel and Google Sheets. What is super unique about Airtable is that it actually allows for over 25 different types of fields. These include: Single line text Long textAttachmentCheckboxMultiple selectSingle selectCollaboratorDatePhone numberEmailURLNumberCurrencyPer centDurationRatingFormulaRollupCountLookupCreated timeLast modified byAutonumberBarcodeButton 5. Views Another cool feature that comes as standard in Airtable is something called views. Think of it as various ways of viewing and processing data. There are 5 views in total including grid, calendar, kanban, gallery and form. 6. Records Last but not least there are records which are essentially rows of data.

This week we’re having tea with Andrew Ofstad, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Airtable. Andrew previously led the redesign of Google Maps and worked as a PM on Android. In this episode, Andrew shares: 0:39: The timeline of getting Airtable to market 9:10: Tradeoffs between going after a narrow use case and building a horizontal product 17:05: How Airtable thought about pricing their pro account Want to hear more? Like the episode? Send us a note at seriestea@mercury.com.

On this show, we often talk about breaking a problem down into smaller tasks, and in today's episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with Andrew Ofstad, who a co-founder of Airtable. Airtable is the future of data management, specifically spreadsheet data management, and in part two of this two-part episode, we discuss some of the learnings Andrew has discovered along his journey into Airtable.

On this show, we often talk about breaking a problem down into smaller tasks, and in today's episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with Andrew Ofstad, who a co-founder of Airtable. Airtable is the future of data management, specifically spreadsheet data management, and in part one of a two-part episode, we discuss how Andrew got into it and where it's going. If you're listening to this episode be sure to tune in to part 2, coming out later this week.

For decades, startups have tried to unseat the mighty spreadsheet, with no success. Does Airtable, a database for the web, have what it takes? And what did it take to make Airtable? Paul Ford and Rich Ziade talk to Airtable co-found Andrew Ofstad to find out.

How can product makers offer more functionality without making it harder for users to be successful? Andrew Ofstad, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Airtable and former product manager at Google, explains why complexity slowly creeps in, how his team at Google pared down the Maps UI using first principles, how he keeps product simple at Airtable, and much more.