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Bending Spoons is buying Airtable - which is very bad because BS is known for buying companies & squeezing them for profit. Gordon screams & wants a local first version. Grist is an OSS alternative supported by European governments.

siliconrepublic.comBending Spoons buys Airtable for $1.2bn after IPO listingItaly’s Bending Spoons has agreed to buy US automation company Airtable in its first acquisition deal after going public last month.

Boris

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Chad Kohalyk@chadkoh.com

Ruh roh. Stayed away from AirTable for a long time since I figured something like this would happen. The risk of centralized cloud apps 🤷‍♂️ Not happy about it. This is why we need to billionaire-proof our software.

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Boris

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4 Aug

Nick Gerakines@ngerakines.me

Oof. Bending spoons now owns Evernote, Meetup, Eventbrite, Vimeo, and a handful of others. 1.2B is pretty substantial. Are those products better now?

techcrunch.comBending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B | TechCrunchAt its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion.

Boris

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4 Aug

Citizen Platano 🇵🇷@daniloc.xyz

It was always going to end this way for Airtable. I remember when this tool landed: I couldn't believe it. it was a means for everyday people to express themselves through computing in the best traditions of HyperCard and Excel. you could learn by doing and create seriously powerful stuff