# Howie Liu

> Howie Liu is the co-founder and CEO of Airtable, the no-code app platform he is now refounding around AI. In January 2026 he launched Superagent, a multi-agent system that coordinates specialized AI workers in parallel - Airtable's first standalone product in 13 years.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Airtable
- **Organizations:** Airtable, Etacts (founder, acquired by Salesforce), Salesforce (alumni), Freestyle Capital (early involvement)
- **From:** College Station, Texas, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S., Mechanical Engineering and Public Policy, Duke University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Airtable, used by 500,000+ organizations, Took Airtable from a no-code spreadsheet to an AI-native app platform, Built Etacts and sold it to Salesforce by age 21

## Career timeline

- **2002** — Taught himself C++ at age 13 from a book on his father's desk
- **2005** — Enrolled at Duke University at age 16
- **2008** — Involved in the formation of Freestyle Capital
- **2009** — Graduated Duke; co-founded Etacts, a CRM startup, at age 20
- **2010** — Etacts acquired by Salesforce; Liu led social CRM product
- **2013** — Co-founded Airtable with Andrew Ofstad and Emmett Nicholas
- **2015** — Airtable public launch
- **2018** — Airtable hits unicorn status at $1.1B valuation
- **2021** — Airtable raises $735M Series F at $11B valuation
- **2025** — Acquired DeepSky, AI research firm; reorganized Airtable around AI
- **2026** — Launched Superagent, a multi-agent system, on January 27

## Achievements

- Co-founded Airtable, used by 500,000+ organizations
- Took Airtable from a no-code spreadsheet to an AI-native app platform
- Built Etacts and sold it to Salesforce by age 21
- Raised over $1.35B in total funding for Airtable
- Launched Superagent, Airtable's first new standalone product in 13 years

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Launched Superagent, a multi-agent AI research platform, at superagent.com
- **2025-10** — Airtable acquired DeepSky, an AI research firm specializing in autonomous agents
- **2025** — Hired David Azose, ex-OpenAI ChatGPT business products engineering lead, as CTO

## Links

- Website: https://airtable.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/howieliu
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/howietl
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzfklNb1wjc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/airtableapp

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Last updated: 2026-05-30