[loeber]

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]

> 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]

Airplanes don’t need traction, they need lift.

[rizky05]

They also need a runway, which they don't.

[HEGalloway]

maybe all they need is a layover?

[wharvle]

The real trouble was that most of the flight crew ordered the fish.

[blitzar]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

[loeber]

Oops :facepalm:. If only I could read...