In this week’s episode we chat with David Peterson, partner at Angular Ventures and also one of the first employees at Airtable.


David had an extensive career as an operator before joining Airtable, where he led the growth and partnership teams. He’s now moved to the other side of the table, joining Gil Dibner, another previous guest on this show, as partner of Angular.


In this episode, we chat with David about the following topics:

How he got into tech with a non-tech background
The importance of sales in any kind if job and he learned the craft at Google
How he got to join Airtable as one of the first employees
In a PLG product, the horizontal vs. vertical product
When to listen to your users and when to follow intuition
How to start thinking about monetisation and layering inside sales on top of PLG
How partnerships can help a company grow
His experience as a former operator turned investor

I’m joined in this podKast by Victoriano Izquierdo, co-founder of Graphext, one of our portfolio companies.