2025-03-22
2 小时 2 分钟Foreign.
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Well, friends, I'm here with a good friend of mine, David Shue, the founder and CEO of Retool.
So, David, I know so many developers who use Retool to solve problems, but I'm curious.
Help me to understand the specific user, the particular developer who is just loving Retool.
Who's your ideal user?
Yeah.
So for us, the ideal user of Retool is someone whose goal, first and foremost, is to either deliver value to the business or to be effective.
Where we candidly have a little bit less success is with people that are extremely opinionated about their tools.
If, for example, you're like, hey, I need to go use webassembly, and if I'm not using webassembly, I'm quitting my job, you're probably not the best Retool user, honestly.
However, if you're like, hey, I see problems in the business and I want to have an impact and I want to solve those problems, Retool is right up your alley.
And the reason for that is Retool allows you to have an impact so quickly.
You could go from an idea, you go from a meeting like, hey, you know, this is an app that we need to literally having the app built in 30 minutes, which is super, super impactful on the business.
So I think that's the kind of partnership or that's the kind of impact that we'd like to see with our customers.
You know, from my perspective, my thought is that while Retool is well known, Retool is somewhat even saturated.
I know a lot of people who know Retool.