Howie Liu, Airtable's CEO and cofounder, talked to Business Insider about his thinking about a possible initial public offering.
Airtable, the hot enterprise software startup, likely won't be going public soon, CEO Howie Liu said.Its revenue will likely soon be sufficient to make for a healthy IPO, CEO Howie Liu tells Business Insider, who also says that it's not currently cash flow positive — but only by choice.A slew of Silicon Valley startups are slated to go public this year, but don't expect Airtable to be among them.
"We are clearly on a path to where we could easily go public in the near future if we wanted to," Liu said. But, he continued,"We actually have no immediate intention or any urgency around going public." its financials, there's less pressure on startups of a certain size to go public, he added. And going public has become less of a milestone marker for startups than it used to be, he said.
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