---
title: "Howie Liu"
category: "people"
role: "CEO"
company: "Airtable"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/howieliu/"
twitter: "https://x.com/howietl"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Howie Liu

## Profile
CEO at [[airtable|Airtable]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/howieliu/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/howietl)

## Biography
Howie is the CEO of [[airtable|Airtable]], which he co-founded in 2013 with the vision of creating a radically faster and more intuitive way to build useful applications. Since launch, [[airtable|Airtable]] has gained a groundswell of adoption across a range of customers from small businesses to the world's largest enterprises, with over 500,000 organizations using [[airtable|Airtable]]'s AI-native platform to build applications that fit their workflows. Now counting over half of the Fortune 500 as paid customers, [[airtable|Airtable]] enables organizations to turn the power of AI into measurable business impact and power mission-critical enterprise use cases. The company recently launched Superagent, a standalone product built on multi-agent coordination that delivers research and analysis through teams of specialized AI agents working in parallel. Headquartered in San Francisco, [[airtable|Airtable]] has raised $1.36 billion to date and employs over 750 employees.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-howie-liu-100-000-aie-startup-battlefield-presented-by-hyperagent]] — $100,000 AIE Startup Battlefield — presented by Hyperagent (2026-07-01, 10:45am-1:00pm)
- [[2026-07-01-howie-liu-startup-battlefield]] — Startup Battlefield (2026-07-01, 5:10pm-5:30pm)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-howie-liu-100-000-aie-startup-battlefield-presented-by-hyperagent|$100,000 AIE Startup Battlefield — presented by Hyperagent]]
- [[2026-07-01-howie-liu-startup-battlefield|Startup Battlefield]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-I2cbIws9j10` — 91,792 transcript words; 7 slide-derived text signals
- Transcript signals for `youtube-I2cbIws9j10`: code, model, back, system, well, first, today, even.
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-I2cbIws9j10`: context, window, selects, response, facts, retry, coerce, rollback.
- Evidence links for `youtube-I2cbIws9j10`: [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10]], [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10-transcript]], [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10-slides]], [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10-dense-slides]]
- `youtube-zepu8Kk6FBQ` — 5 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-zepu8Kk6FBQ`: teams, tiny, moro, than, rarefied, already, profitable, most.
- Evidence links for `youtube-zepu8Kk6FBQ`: [[youtube-zepu8Kk6FBQ]], [[youtube-zepu8Kk6FBQ-slides]], [[youtube-zepu8Kk6FBQ-dense-slides]], [[youtube-zepu8Kk6FBQ-reconstructed-slides]]

## Livestream Appearances
- [[2026-07-01-howie-liu-100-000-aie-startup-battlefield-presented-by-hyperagent|$100,000 AIE Startup Battlefield — presented by Hyperagent]] — [watch at 08:18:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2cbIws9j10&t=29906s) in WF26: Harness Engineering & Startup Battlefield (Day 3).