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This entire product was, astonishingly, built by 1 engineer and 1 designer. And, now that we're seeing the traction, we need to grow the team! We're hiring 🤗 retool.com/careers

Really excited for this next step in making Retool your one-stop shop for building all internal tools—You shouldn't have to be a frontend dev to build great frontend tools, and you shouldn't have to be a mobile expert to build great mobile apps. 📲🖥️🤯

Developer tools for developer tools are my favorite kind of tools

The breadth of business processes we've seen developers automate with Retool Workflows is 🤯. Order delivery notifications, data aggregation, monitoring for dead tuples…And of course, my personal workflow that triggers every time someone on my team has a birthday/anniversary 🤗

Build *beautiful* internal tools, remarkably fast

simple != easy *So* much thought went into designing the right experience to help users shortcut navigation and actions in Retool. Love what Jessica Sun, Andrew Shen, Larry Zhang, and Ford did here. I use this feature ceaselessly

The time I got to spend with Claire Hughes Johnson while writing for this book during the very early stages was the single most effective crash course in manager training and company building. Can't wait for folks to soak it all in. Huge congrats Claire Hughes Johnson!

Most of the world's workers (80%) don't sit at a desk. Now companies can build native apps for their mobile workforce in minutes—no mobile expertise required. Pretty darn cool. (Also, *really* fun to build with)

.Lenny Rachitsky asked why *some* teams (like Stripe and Retool) are innovation machines. But no one wakes up and thinks "Today, I want to do boring, incremental work". So why isn't *every* team an innovation machine? So fun chatting about this & more. Huge thanks for having me!

Next week I’m joining Brie Wolfson as a cofounder of @hiconstellate. I wrote a little post on why 👇

Ernest Hemingway said: "When I dream of afterlife in heaven, the action always takes place in the Paris Ritz." Favorite research rabbit hole for this episode was Marriott's acquisition of the Ritz Carlton...involving a sheik, a tragic car chase, and chocolate chips.

Best Red Queen Podcast anecdote: Stranger hears my friend listening to the Marriot ep. Stranger mentions his wife has worked at Marriott >30 years! All the culture tidbits (treat employees like family) are true! When wife hits certain tenure milestone they’ll get free lifetime rooms!

Joe Coulombe wrote *the* book I want to read about every business: A precise and delightfully written how-to-guide on how he started and ran Trader Joes. It almost made me want to start my own grocery store