Hi! We're Retool (https://tryretool.com) - a fast way to build internal tools. We recently launched on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966). We're profitable, growing quickly, and have raised money from great technical founders, including Paul Graham, John + Patrick Collison, Nat Friedman, Greg Brockman, etc.
We've significantly de-risked the business (good signals of early pmf, completed 10+ unaffiliated sales via cold email, are profitable, etc.). But there's plenty of uncertainty left as well. For example: how do we convert early pmf into actual pmf? How do we scale sales? Should we be doing sales or marketing? Should we be selling to technical or non-technical people?
The market for custom enterprise apps is huge. And we think that we have a promising shot at capturing much of it: we have a product that works, that customers love (ping me for a list of customers), and whose usage is growing rapidly.
We're looking engineers (full-stack) and AEs (ideally with some experience selling SaaS software). You’ll be talking to customers multiple times a day, no matter what the role. Since we’re still early, you’re also welcome to learn about other aspects of the business, like marketing, sales, or whatever else.
If you're interested, please email me at dh@tryretool.com. Thanks!
Victor here, just a heads for others thinking of applying here. The following may or may not prevent you from wasting your time. Here goes: David asked to meet up for coffee in SF to follow up on my application and then went awol while I was in SF waiting to meetup. No hard feelings but it says a lot about their values and ethics. It's not enough to say you have good values, you have to practice them too. Having said that, best of luck growing your company! Best, Victor.
I'm really sorry! I just emailed you if in case you're still up for meeting up. It looks like I didn't think we had agreed on a meeting, but you thought we had.
(I asked whether you were "going to be in SF next weekend", and didn't propose a time nor place. In your reply, you similarly didn't propose time nor place either. And so based on that email conversation, I didn't think we had agreed on meeting anywhere! I'm really sorry for the miscommunication.)
Hi! We're Retool (https://tryretool.com) - a fast way to build internal tools. We recently launched on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966). We're profitable, growing quickly, and have raised money from great technical founders, including Paul Graham, John + Patrick Collison, Nat Friedman, Greg Brockman, etc.
We've significantly de-risked the business (good signals of early pmf, completed 10+ unaffiliated sales via cold email, are profitable, etc.). But there's plenty of uncertainty left as well. For example: how do we convert early pmf into actual pmf? How do we scale sales? Should we be doing sales or marketing? Should we be selling to technical or non-technical people?
The market for custom enterprise apps is huge. And we think that we have a promising shot at capturing much of it: we have a product that works, that customers love (ping me for a list of customers), and whose usage is growing rapidly.
We're looking engineers (full-stack) and AEs (ideally with some experience selling SaaS software). You’ll be talking to customers multiple times a day, no matter what the role. Since we’re still early, you’re also welcome to learn about other aspects of the business, like marketing, sales, or whatever else.
If you're interested, please email me at dh@tryretool.com. Thanks!