From Airtable, a Saas competitor: "Today we’re laying off a large part of the Airtable team.
This is not a reflection of their work but a reflection of our deep belief that small teams ship more and better."
This is normal in Saas. This is what we have refused to do.
When AI productivity enables smaller teams, we retrain people to deploy on new products or helping customers better.
Our business is growing but there is a lot of pressure on the cost side (data center and AI costs). We have chosen a different approach than VC-funded and public companies.
We will see in 2030.
Sridhar Vembu
@svembu
Federico Simionato @fedesimio
Today we’re laying off a large part of the Airtable team.
This is not a reflection of their work but a reflection of our deep belief that small teams ship more and better.
For Airtable, better is about to look like:
- A new Core team shipping your top requests monthly (already
This is not a reflection of their work but a reflection of our deep belief that small teams ship more and better.
For Airtable, better is about to look like:
- A new Core team shipping your top requests monthly (already
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