More posts from David Hsu

Introducing pricing, v2

We’re excited to introduce the second iteration of pricing for Retool, which is cheaper for nearly every customer.

Introducing Mark Schaaf, Retool’s new COO

Mark Schaaf is joining Retool as our first Chief Operating Officer. As a developer-first company, it was important that we have a highly engineering-focused COO.

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Retool’s Series C2 fundraise

We’re excited to share that we’ve raised $45M at a $3.2B valuation. Our Series C2 is a continuation of our unconventional approach to fundraising—instead of raising the maximum amount at the highest valuation, we raise small rounds at lower valuations, which minimizes dilution and preserves upside for employees. Our fundraising strategy is optimiz...

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Raising less money at lower valuations

Many startups today fundraise with the goal of getting the most money at the highest valuation possible. But at Retool, we decided to take the opposite strategy.

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Scaling an on-prem first SaaS company to tens of millions of ARR

How we decided to build both a cloud and on-prem option for Retool, the challenges, and why it's becoming more common to offer both.

Retool raises $50M led by Sequoia

Since Retool launched two years ago on HN, tens of thousands of companies have come to rely on Retool. It's how Allbirds measures the efficacy of their marketing campaigns; how Brex builds applications to underwrite, onboard, and support their businesses; how Amazon manages GDPR exports for some of their customers; and how NBC manages scheduling fo...