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Retool CEO David Hsu on Finding Product-Market Fit via Sales: The Complete History and Strategy

Retool is a multi-billion dollar valuation juggernaut that — almost uniquely for this era — operates at roughly cashflow breakeven while still growing rapidly. On this episode David shares his thoughts on finding product-market fit through sales, the dangers of product-led growth, how to get $1-5 million in ARR with just 5-10 people on the team.

Retool raises $45M at a $3.2B valuation to make building custom software as easy as buying off the shelf |

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About us @Retool

Retool | Build internal tools, remarkably fast.

"Connect to most databases or anything with a REST, GraphQL or gRPC API. Retool empowers you to work with all of your data sources seamlessly in one app.

How you store your data is up to you. By default, nothing is stored in Retool. When a query is run, the Retool backend proxies the request to your backend. No more ETL-ing data around!"

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