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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Retool comes up
Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
- ▶ 10:09 Maor Shlomo I was, and still, by the way, huge fan of tools like Retool for like, ah, the previous, ah, wave of like, no code, ah, tools, but then those tools were really more of like low code tools, right?
Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
- ▶ 1:06 Lenny Rachitsky She was also an early marketing leader at Retool and at Dropbox. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:22 Krithika Shankarraman Tell me how Retool did it.
- ▶ 17:19 Krithika Shankarraman Yeah, one that comes to mind is definitely Retool. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:32 Krithika Shankarraman And we found this firsthand multiple times at Stripe, but also at Retool. 3 times in the scene
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
- ▶ 44:59 Nabeel S. Qureshi I remember reading a really interesting post by, I think it was David Su from Retool who had this exact thing. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 3:26 Lenny Rachitsky Aika was head of product at Retool.
Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
- ▶ 1:09:00 Lenny Rachitsky And, uh, Retool started as Venmo for the UK.
Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus | Karri Saarinen (co-founder, designer, CEO)
- ▶ 4:58 Karri Saarinen Block, Vercel, Ramp, Retool, Mercury, and Substack are, are building with Linear.
How to achieve hypergrowth in your business and career | Carilu Dietrich (Atlassian)
- ▶ 41:47 Lenny Rachitsky I just had a conversation with the founder of Retool for this series that I'm working on, and he said he basically found the same thing you found where they thought it could be a product-led experience where you're building internal tools…
The ultimate guide to product-led sales | Elena Verna
- ▶ 3:18 Lenny Rachitsky Linear is the default tool of choice among startups, and it powers a wide range of large established companies such as Vercel, Retool, and Cash App.
An inside look at how Miro builds product | Varun Parmar (CPO of Miro)
- ▶ 40:50 Lenny Rachitsky Linear is the default tool of choice among startups, and it powers a wide range of large established companies such as Vercel, Retool, and Cash App.
Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)
- ▶ 52:16 Lenny Rachitsky Linear is the default tool of choice among startups, and it powers a wide range of large established companies such as Vercel, Retool, and Cash App.
Lessons from scaling Stripe | Claire Hughes Johnson (ex-COO of Stripe)
- ▶ 3:02 Lenny Rachitsky Linear is the default tool of choice among startups, and it powers a wide range of large established companies such as Vercel, Retool, and Cash App.
- ▶ 1:15:48 Lenny Rachitsky As you were talking, I realized Aika, who we mentioned a couple of times, she is working, she left Retool, and she's working on a startup that is trying to solve this problem.
Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)
- ▶ 2:36 Lenny Rachitsky Linear is the default tool of choice among startups, and it powers a wide range of large established companies such as Vercel, Retool, and Cash App.
Mastering onboarding | Lauryn Isford (Head of Growth at Airtable)
- ▶ 42:44 Lenny Rachitsky But until that day, there's still, like, I don't know, I think of, um, Retool, I think, is very, like, hands-on, hand-holdy front, I think, is like that.
How to foster innovation and big thinking | Eeke de Milliano (Retool, Stripe)
- ▶ 1:04 Lenny Rachitsky Eika is Head of Product at Retool.
- ▶ 3:57 Lenny Rachitsky So you're currently head of product at Retool, but before that you spend a lot of time at Stripe. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:51 Eeke de Milliano And actually maybe just sort of to, to pattern match, Retool also didn't really have PMs for a while. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:56 Lenny Rachitsky Retool also is a very first principles, innovative company. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:01 Eeke de Milliano Like a year ago, if you'd asked me what is Retool's product, I, you know, I would have told you Retool helps you build internal front ends really, really fast. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:21 Eeke de Milliano So that was actually one of the crazy ideas and, and that ended up becoming Retool Workflows, which, you know, we launched just last year in November.
- ▶ 32:28 Eeke de Milliano So the three products we launched were, one was Retool Workflows that, you know, I, I talked to you a little bit about.
- ▶ 32:40 Eeke de Milliano You can kind of do it in the Retool way where it's this visual sort of easier builder of, of creating these, you know, different sort of workflows, but you can write your own code on top of it as well. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:51 Eeke de Milliano Second product is Retool Mobile. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:09 Eeke de Milliano And then the third product was Retool database.
- ▶ 38:01 Lenny Rachitsky In the time that you worked at Stripe and Retool, I know we chatted before we started recording, you think a lot about what is the right level of process for companies at different stages, and I'd love to just hear your thoughts, because I…
- ▶ 45:38 Lenny Rachitsky Do you have any other product building philosophies that you found especially useful in your time at Stripe, at Retool, anywhere else? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:07 Eeke de Milliano So with Retool Mobile, for example, like, there's just so much you could be building there, and we decided very specifically, like, hey, we're only going to build this for companies that have field workers, and like, you know, they would…
- ▶ 51:01 Lenny Rachitsky I wanted to go back to something that I've heard about Retool that you all are really good at, which is PMs being really close to customers, and I'm curious what you've done there, or what the team has done there, that it's been really… 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:49 Lenny Rachitsky Retool, on the other hand, I think people think it's product-led growth. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:29 Eeke de Milliano From other companies and have done it and can bring a little bit more of that product manager rigor, even though they don't have that sort of, you know, the core and, you know, the retail case of the core retail product management, you… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:08 Eeke de Milliano Yeah, well, first and foremost is Retool. 3 times in the scene
Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
- ▶ 29:28 Lenny Rachitsky Linear is the default tool of choice among startups, and it powers a wide range of large established companies such as Vercel, Retool, and Cash App.
Lessons from one of the world’s top executive recruiters | Lauren Ipsen (Daversa Partners, GC)
- ▶ 2:35 Lenny Rachitsky And that's why I'm such a big fan of Retool, and why I think Retool is so popular. 8 times in the scene
Building Substack | Sachin Monga (Substack, Facebook)
- ▶ 2:32 Lenny Rachitsky And that's why I'm such a big fan of Retool and why I think Retool is so popular. 8 times in the scene
Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook)
- ▶ 2:33 Lenny Rachitsky Linear is the default tool of choice among startups, and it powers a wide range of large established companies such as Vercel, Retool, and Cash App.
How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)
- ▶ 2:33 Lenny Rachitsky Linear is the default tool of choice among startups, and it powers a wide range of large established companies such as Vercel, Retool, and Cash App.