The end of Airplane.dev

Airplane, an internal tooling startup, was acquired by Airtable and its product shut down, according to a former employee's account. The author, who worked at Airplane for nearly two years, describes a 2023 slowdown in revenue growth, four engineers and the head of growth leaving, and CEO announcements that led to an all-hands on December 4 revealing the deal. Employees learned their common stock was worth $0 and were offered Airtable roles with signing bonuses. The author declined, and the product shut down on March 1 after the January 3 public announcement. The article says the company had tens of millions of dollars in the bank and that the CEO saw no path to significantly higher revenue.