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Airtable, the 13-year-old spreadsheet-database company, agreed to be acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.28B in cash — the Italian acquirer's first deal since its $18B IPO last month. Counting Airtable's net cash, the company is valued at about $2.25B, against the $11B+ it commanded at its 2021 peak and the ~$4B its shares fetched on secondaries earlier this year. It raised more than $1.4B to date, and ARR grew 20% YoY to roughly $480M as of June. Bending Spoons (Evernote, WeTransfer, Vimeo, Eventbrite) typically trims staff and streamlines products post-close — and Airtable's senior bench has been emptying for a year already.

  1. Michelle V. in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: PM, Platform Engineering @ Airtable (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Anrok ($109M from Spark, Sequoia, Index, Khosla, Sapphire), VC @ Index, IB @ Goldman Sachs, Stanford BS, Oxford MSc

    3. Description: Moved to Executive Chairman 2/26

  2. David A. in Seattle (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: CTO @ Airtable (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Engineering, ChatGPT Business Products @ OpenAI, Senior Director of Engineering @ DoorDash, Director of Engineering @ Uber

    3. Description: Left Airtable on 7/26

  3. Raymond Endres in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: CTO @ Airtable (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: VP Engineering @ Facebook, Director of Engineering @ Microsoft, Princeton BSE CS

    3. Description: "Recharging before the next adventure"

  4. JB Bakst in LA (Founder & CEO @ Chief)

    1. Role: ~7th FTE & Product & SWE @ Airtable (6 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Stanford BS CS

    3. Description: "The first inbox with good judgment"

    4. Contact: [email protected], Twitter

  5. William Wolf in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Engineering @ Airtable (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ Hotline, Co-Founder & CEO @ Bayes (YC S19 → acq by Airtable), PM @ Twitter

    3. Description: Left Hotline 4/26 — "Builder. Erstwhile Founder"

  6. Emre Sonmez in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: SWE Intern @ Airtable (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Nashi (backed by Kleiner Perkins → acq by Density), Product & Revenue Growth @ Density, Engineering Lead @ WeWork

    3. Description: Left Density in '25 with no updates

  7. Kelly O'Shaughnessy in NYC (Co-Founder & CEO @ systemzero)

    1. Role: Head of Product & GM, PLG @ Airtable (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Operating Expert @ Primary Venture Partners, Cornell BS CS

    3. Description: “AI operating system for CFOs.”

  8. Kah Seng Tay in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: GM & VP of Engineering @ Airtable (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: 1st Non-Founder Executive & VP of Engineering @ Drive.ai (acq by Apple), MIT MEng EECS

    3. Description: "Stealth since 9/23”

  9. Yoel Gluck in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Head of Security @ Airtable (5.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Fractional CISO & Strategic Security Advisor @ Assort Health, Security @ Salesforce

    3. Description: "Building an early-stage venture in the security / AI space"

  10. Ayesha Bose in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Lead PM @ Airtable (3.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: MTS @ Replit, 1st PM @ Threads (acq by Shopify), PM @ Slack, MIT MEng EECS

    3. Description: Left Replit 6/26 with no updates

  11. Clay Jones in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: SWE @ Airtable (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Mira AI, Research Intern @ MIT CSAIL, MIT BS CS

    3. Description: Left Airtable 12/25 with no updates

  12. Emily Koufakis Dell in Austin (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Chief of Staff @ Airtable (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Global Product Lead @ Google, Stanford BA

    3. Description: Left Airtable 10/25 with no updates

  13. Cameron Wong in US (Stealth)

    1. Role: Team Lead, SWE & Growth @ Airtable (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Team Lead, SWE & Growth @ Patreon, SWE @ Google, SWE @ Microsoft

    3. Description: Stealth since 9/25 — "building something new. dm to learn more"

  14. Arielle Williams in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Strategic Finance, GTM @ Airtable (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Investment Banking Analyst @ Evercore, Investment Banking Summer Analyst @ Goldman Sachs, Investment Banking Analyst @ Capital Clarity, Stanford BA

    3. Description: "Building AI for Finance Professionals"

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