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The Airtable Acquisition Raises a Bigger Question: Do You Really Own the Software Your Business Runs On?
When software becomes deeply embedded in a business, it can stop feeling like software.
It becomes infrastructure.
Your data is there. Your workflows are there. Your employees know how to use it. Your automations run in the background. Your business processes have gradually been shaped around it.
Then the company behind the software gets acquired.
Suddenly, questions that once seemed theoretical become very practical:
What happens to the pricing?
What happens to the features you depend on?
What happens to
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