Retool founder David Hsu: AI, future of DevTools & how Retool got their first customers
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David Hsu is the founder of Retool, the low-code platform for building internal tools used by companies like Amazon, Airbnb, and the US Army. David recounts building Retool's first version in weeks with just three components, early outreach failures, shifting to "tomorrow's developers," and LLM use cases.
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• Retool
• David's Linkedin
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