Bending Spoons entered definitive agreement to acquire Airtable for $1.28B

29 pointsposted 16 hours ago
by BoorishBears

8 Comments

wusel

15 hours ago

When they had this AI induced relaunch „What do you want to build“ they lost the plot.

I guess their product-market fit was always a bit shallow / broad. Airtable is powerful, and you can do so much with it, but it’s never better than the use case specific alternatives. Opaque pricing and feature gating create a lot of friction as well. Also, these „it can do anything, but you have to set it up yourself“ kinds of apps, always have it hard with true bottom up adoption.

mdrzn

15 hours ago

Another soon-to-be-abandonware dead company, after being acquired by BS.

altacc

15 hours ago

Yep, all Airtable staff should immediately start sending out their CVs. BS has a process: buy, butcher, enshittify, kill, repeat.

weinzierl

14 hours ago

It is more like buy, relentlessly milk to exhaustion, butcher when the victim goes dry, repeat.