Draft:Howie Liu

Howie Liu
EducationDuke University
OccupationTechnology entrepreneur
Years active2010-present

Howie Liu (born 1988) is an American technology entrepreneur who is a co-founder and the chief executive officer of Airtable, a cloud software company.[1] Before Airtable he cofounded Etacts, a contact-management startup that Salesforce acquired in 2010.[2]

Career

Liu started his career as a software developer at Accenture in San Jose. In February 2010, he co-founded Etacts With Evan Beard and took part in Y Combinator’s winter 2010 cohort.[1] Etacts raised approximately $700,000 from angel investors including Ron Conway, Joshua Schachter, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim and the actor Ashton Kutcher.[2] Salesforce acquired Etacts on 21 December 2010.[3] Liu joined Salesforce as a product manager. He left the company in 2012.[1][4]

In 2012, Liu along with Andrew Ofstad and Emmett Nicholas founded Airtable. In November 2018 the company raised $100 million at a post-money valuation of $1.1 billion, its first valuation above $1 billion.[5] A $185 million Series D round led by Thrive Capital followed in September 2020, valuing Airtable at about $2.5 billion. In December 2021 the company raised $735 million in a Series F round led by XN, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Franklin Templeton and Michael Dell’s MSD Capital, at a valuation of $11 billion.[6]

Liu also writes for Tech Crunch.[7]

Honours

  1. ^ a b c "Move Slow and Make Things: Airtable's Howie Liu Built A $1B Software Giant Emphasizing Substance Over Speed". Forbes. Retrieved 2026-07-27.
  2. ^ a b Rao, Leena (2010-12-21). "Salesforce Buys Email Contact Manager Etacts". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2026-07-27.
  3. ^ "Salesforce Buys Small Contact Management Start-Up Etacts". AllThingsD. Retrieved 2026-07-28.
  4. ^ Kim, Eugene. "This 26-year-old CEO pitched Ashton Kutcher in his movie trailer — and got funding". Business Insider. Retrieved 2026-07-28.
  5. ^ "No-one understood our idea, but now it's worth over $1bn". 2019-11-04. Retrieved 2026-07-28.
  6. ^ León, Riley de (2021-12-13). "Software start-up Airtable hits $11 billion valuation in latest funding, adds Salesforce, Michael Dell as investors". CNBC. Retrieved 2026-07-28.
  7. ^ "Howie Liu, Author at TechCrunch". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2026-07-28.
  8. ^ "Howie Liu". Fortune. Retrieved 2026-07-28.

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