Airtable being valued at $11B is completely nuts. Sure it's kinda useful but the valuation was completely bonkers and I wouldn't be surprised if it hurts them down the road as they'll never really meet expectations a $11B valuation brings.

I’m waiting for Postman news to drop. Got into a discussion with one of their recruiters in 2021 about their absurd valuation, and boy did he try to spin a tale

ketzo

Wow, jesus, $6.5B [1] for an API client? 2021 really was a fever dream for VC, huh.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/18/api-platform-postman-value...

that_guy_iain

It's useful. But the pro features didn't really stand out that much. I worked at one company that shelled out for pro and then went back because really the pro features weren't that much use.

ApolloFortyNine

Well more than anything, 90% of the use cases are people using it as essentially a GUI CURL. There's countless open source alternatives [1] [2]. They can't ever charge too much money because the space isn't exactly hard to enter.

[1] https://github.com/Kong/insomnia [2] https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox