Lutsky: Many big-tech internal tools cannot succeed as standalone companies
Merrill Lutsky · He hit $1M ARR in 10 months—after doing of a full, 180 pivot. | Merrill Lutsky, Founder of Graphite · PMF Show · Jun 2, 2025 · at 20:52
Merrill Lutsky, founder of Graphite, discusses why copying internal developer tools from companies like Meta and Airbnb often fails as a standalone startup strategy.
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“Some things are features, not, not products or companies. And I think that what we, and also some things I think can only they can't really exist as standalone companies. They only really, they're only really like internal tools that they can't really break out from that because They don't, you know, they don't immediately, you know, while they solve a problem, they don't immediately match up to like a strong business need and they're just too low priority in order to actually get you know, get evaluated and get brought in.”
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