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I don't get it. According to the blogpost, 450,000 organizations use Airplane, and over 50% of Fortune 500s are paying customers? Okay, that suggests a viable b

by loeber 3y ago

I don't get it. According to the blogpost, 450,000 organizations use Airplane, and over 50% of Fortune 500s are paying customers? Okay, that suggests a viable business. And then they're shutting down? Normally you'd expect to see some layoffs and a paring down to profitability: it is SAAS, after all, so you'd expect high gross margins that could be operated by a skeleton crew if necessary. I'm wondering what happened here -- was Airplane gross-margins negative? Was there some fundamental issue that was unsurmountable? In my mind, it's just kind of strange for a popular and widely used, evidently saleable product to wind up burning through all their runway and then ending in what looks like an acquihire. Odd.

morgante 3y ago
> Over 450,000 organizations use Airtable and over 50% of the Fortune 500 are paying customers That’s Airtable (the acquirer) not Airplane. I’d be astonished if Airplane had anywhere near that much traction.
- ralmidani 3y ago
  Airplanes don’t need traction, they need lift.
  - rizky05 3y ago
    They also need a runway, which they don't.
    - HEGalloway 3y ago
      maybe all they need is a layover?
      - wharvle 3y ago
        The real trouble was that most of the flight crew ordered the fish.
        blitzar 3y ago
        Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
- loeber 3y ago
  Oops :facepalm:. If only I could read...
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