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Andrew Ofstad
InvestorUnicorn founderFounder at Airtable
Menlo Park, California, United States
FoundedAirtable$11.7B
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About
Andrew Ofstad is a co-founder and chief product officer of Airtable, the no-code platform valued at $11.7 billion at its 2021 peak and sold to Bending Spoons for about $2.25 billion in equity value in 2026. Raised in rural Montana, he studied electrical engineering and economics at Duke, then product-managed Android and led the redesign of Google Maps at Google before starting Airtable with Howie Liu and Emmett Nicholas in 2012.
Deal analysis
- Airtable × Bending Spoons: who got the money home
An estimated liquidation waterfall: the late-stage pref stack took $1.29bn at ~1x, founders took ~$190m, and seed money made ~42x.
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Beyond investing
- Education
- Duke University, electrical engineering and economics.
- Family
- Grew up in rural, mountainous Montana building treehouses and snowboard jumps with his brothers.
Mentioned above: the Google mafia → · the Duke University mafia →
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Founder at Airtable
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Investments
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Podcasts & interviews
featuring Andrew OfstadFounder Mode Live at San Francisco Tech Week with Max Mullen (Instacart) & Andrew Ofstad (Airtable)
Founder Mode
Interview w/ Andrew Ofstad from Airtable (part 1)
Developer Tea
Table Talk #12: Interview with Andrew Ofstad & Year In Review | Airtable
Airtable
Sophisticated Software With Simple UI // Andrew Ofstad, Airtable [FirstMark's Design Driven]
Design Driven NYC · youtube.com
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Andrew Ofstad?
- Andrew Ofstad is a co-founder and chief product officer of Airtable, the no-code platform valued at $11.7 billion at its 2021 peak and sold to Bending Spoons for about $2.25 billion in equity value in 2026. Raised in rural Montana, he studied electrical engineering and economics at Duke, then product-managed Android and led the redesign of Google Maps at Google before starting Airtable with Howie Liu and Emmett Nicholas in 2012.
- Where does Andrew Ofstad work?
- Andrew Ofstad is Founder of Airtable.
- What companies did Andrew Ofstad found?
- Andrew Ofstad founded Airtable.
- What companies has Andrew Ofstad invested in?
- Investments tracked here include Arcane, camfer, Haiku, Physical Turing, Reducto, Rocketable, Tally.
- What podcasts and interviews feature Andrew Ofstad?
- Tracked appearances include "Founder Mode Live at San Francisco Tech Week with Max Mullen (Instacart) & Andrew Ofstad (Airtable)", "Interview w/ Andrew Ofstad from Airtable (part 1)", "Table Talk #12: Interview with Andrew Ofstad & Year In Review | Airtable", and 1 more.
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