alt.hn

8/4/2026 at 8:30:21 AM

Bending Spoons entered definitive agreement to acquire Airtable for $1.28B

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260730994716/en/Bending-Spoons-has-entered-into-a-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-Airtable-for-%241.285-billion

by BoorishBears

8/4/2026 at 9:11:27 AM

When they had this AI induced relaunch „What do you want to build“ they lost the plot.

I guess their product-market fit was always a bit shallow / broad. Airtable is powerful, and you can do so much with it, but it’s never better than the use case specific alternatives. Opaque pricing and feature gating create a lot of friction as well. Also, these „it can do anything, but you have to set it up yourself“ kinds of apps, always have it hard with true bottom up adoption.

by wusel

8/4/2026 at 8:50:17 AM

For those curious, peak valuation was Dec 2021: $11.7B

by BoorishBears

8/4/2026 at 10:14:50 AM

And they had raise $1.4B across 7 funding rounds.

by gbourne1

8/4/2026 at 9:12:40 AM

Another soon-to-be-abandonware dead company, after being acquired by BS.

by mdrzn

8/4/2026 at 9:36:07 AM

Yep, all Airtable staff should immediately start sending out their CVs. BS has a process: buy, butcher, enshittify, kill, repeat.

by altacc

8/4/2026 at 9:49:38 AM

It is more like buy, relentlessly milk to exhaustion, butcher when the victim goes dry, repeat.

by weinzierl