Retool

“We actually hate the low code moniker. We actually never, in fact, we have docs saying we will never use it internally. Or even to customers.”

“One thing we did actually early on that I think has paid a lot of dividends, especially, you know, which was a lot larger now is we hired a lot of former founders. So I want to say like when we were, I don't know, 2030, 40 people, we were probably like half fo…”

“I do think that based on what we are hearing from customers, if we're not seeing returns in like a year or something, there will be more skepticism. So I think there is like a it is time bound, if you will, so.”

“Our growth star metric used to always be, sort of revenue-generated, or in a new AR-generated. We actually changed it to be number of developers building on the platform, actually, last year.”

“I think that at that point we had raised something like maybe a million dollars, maybe a million and a half coming out of YC. So, I mean, to us to people, you know, that was a huge amount of money. I was like, wow, like how are you ever gonna spend a million a…”

“Practically every app, every internal app especially, is going to be AI infused over the next, like, three years.”

“We think the open source movement in AI, especially when it comes to all the supporting infrastructure, is going to win.”

“Today at Amazon, actually, we have, I think, 11 separate business units that use Retool at this point”

“So we were supposed to present at the March demo day, but then we basically felt like we had nothing really going on and no traction. We had no customers. And so we're like, okay, well, why don't we, you know, take six months to go find all that before present…”

“Most of the software engineers in the world and most of the code-written in the world actually goes towards these internal facing applications.”

“I think one huge advantage of some of the developers is that they actually don't, like, developers don't want to be given an end solution. They want to be given the building blocks to themselves to build the end solution.”

“Like, 95% of our customers actually are developers, actually.”

“If you talk to most engineers today, like, a lot of engineers do use Copilot but if you ask them, like, how much time does Copilot save you, it's not like coding is tenx faster than before. You know, coding is maybe, like, 10% faster, maybe 20% faster, or some…”

“GPT-IV.V. MPS, I want to say it was, like, 14 or something, like, it was, like, not high, actually. But the GPT-IV MPS thing was, like, 45 or something like that”

“We have, I think, basically never built anything specific for one customer”

“Most of the UI UX for this platform is built in retool. And so like you can basically go into retool and there's like a prompt manager, a tool manager, an eval manager.”