Ep. 208 – Is your reliance on specific software holding your business back? With Airtable’s recent acquisition making headlines, Chris reflects on how he accidentally replaced Airtable long before he ever intended to leave it behind. He shares his journey from discovering Airtable as a simple, user-friendly way to work with databases to making it central to his business, and eventually realizing that AI-powered apps and custom interfaces could do the job faster, more flexibly, and without the limitations he had started encountering. Chris breaks down what changed in the technology landscape, where Airtable struggled to evolve, and what its acquisition may signal about the future of software, AI, and how businesses build their tech stacks. Tune in to learn how to spot when it’s time to rethink your tech stack and what AI-powered tools could make possible for your business.

• 1:03 – How Chris accidentally replaced Airtable without ever setting out to replace it.
• 4:17 – Chris’s first introduction to Airtable and why its approach to databases was so different.
• 5:49 – What made Airtable so powerful for businesses that were used to spreadsheets.
• 10:08 – How Airtable gradually replaced other tools in Chris’s business, including his CRM.
• 11:02 – Why Airtable’s interfaces became a critical weakness as competitors evolved.
• 15:04 – How AI-powered app building changed the value of interacting directly with a database.
• 24:33 – What Chris thinks Airtable’s acquisition means and why he believes businesses need to keep evolving their technology stack.

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