Retool History
This colorful San Francisco neighborhood was home to Retool's first office — rumor has it, we're moving back there soon!
What is the Mission?
This Retool customer's original name was /Dev/Payments — we use them today to process all of our customer payments!
Who is Stripe?
This containerization software helps us package up Retool as an "image" for customers to deploy on their own server.
What is Docker?
This Retool customer bills themselves as the "everything store" company and is featured in the homepage demo video.
What is Amazon?
This Venture Capital firm backed Retool by leading our Series A and Series B.
What is Sequoia Capital?
This Retool customer famously plastered their tagline "the corporate card for startups" on every billboard in San Francisco.
Who is Brex?
This future Retool product will help enable our customers to build apps for iOS and Android.
What is Retool Mobile?
Head to this section of our documentation to learn about Retool basics.
What is Retool University?
This more childish name was the precursor to the Retool querying console currently called the "Query library".
What is the Query Playground?
This customer, a bank and payments API, was our most recent committed expansion.
Who is Plaid?
This "secret sauce" of Retool is what allows apps to dynamically update with new data or updated component values.
What is the dependency graph?
This version of Retool doesn't require a network connection to our licensing server — allowing us to sell to HIPAA compliant and companies with other regulations like fintech startups.
What is air-gapped Retool?
This famous webcomic — which often includes programming jokes — is referenced in the Retool onboarding database default dataset.
What is XKCD?
This customer operates a delivery marketplace, started out as Palo Alto Delivery.
Who is DoorDash?
This wine, brought to our 2021 retreat by Dave Cole, was accidentally opened before it's time.
What is Sea Smoke?
This tenured deployed engineer is celebrating his 1 year Retoolversary next week!
Who is Apurva Shrivastava?
This early Retool hire was initially rejected before an interview, so he built a functional mobile version of Retool to land a meeting with David and Anthony.
Who is David Dworsky?
This candy company based in Chicago makes Girl Scout Cookies, Nerds, and Laffy Taffy and has been a Retool customer since 2019.
Who is Ferrara Candy Company?
This is the first line of the homepage demo video.
What is "Retool's a fast way of building internal tools"?
This Retool used to lead the success team, currently heads up our product org.