Retool history
The founding year of a startup called Retool, which describes itself as a "remarkably fast way to build internal tools."
What is 2017?
This crypto company is Retool's first customer with a 7-figure contract.
Who is Coinbase?
This Retool value describes a decision-making framework when faced with difficult decisions — sometimes with competing incentives!
What is "Customer company team"?
Use this component to display tabular data — it's the most commonly used component in Retool apps.
What is the table component?
Retools founders, David and Anthony, met at this University.
What is the University of Oxford?
This Retool customer is a brewery conglomerate based in St. Louis, MO, and employs over 30,000 people.
Who is ABI?
This Retool value emphasizes the criticality of revenue and profits in our ability to continue to serve our customers.
What is "Retool is a business"?
This default permission group grants Retool users the ability to invite other users, configure advanced settings, and just about anything else you can do in Retool.
What is the admin group?
Retool successfully navigated a pivot from this punnily-named Venmo clone for UK users.
What is Cashew?
At one point our largest customer in LatAm, this customer previously boasted over 1400 MAUs.
Who is Rappi?
This Retool value is a call to action to motivate Retool employees to fix broken things in our company!
What is "solutions not problems"?
Abbreviated RBAC, this security feature was shipped in a late-night hacking session while visiting a customer in the Czech Republic.
What are role-based access controls?
While negotiating an upsell with Kiwi.com, Retool CTO Anthony Guo challenged their head of Product to this game — and won!
What is Age of Empires II?
This electronics manufacturer was the first company to sign a 3-year deal with Retool.
Who is TE Connectivity?
This Retool value prioritized quick decision-making and high output.
What is "optimize for speed and outcome"?
This feature allows customers to enforce code review and sync application code to GitHub.
What is Protected Apps?
A type of shark, Retool was almost called this. Remnants of the old name can still be seen in the codebase.
What is Hammerhead?
This customer, specializing in supporting HR for a global workforce, grew revenue by over 1400% in 2021.
Who is Remote?
This Retool value helps us balance the reality of today with the potential of the future.
What is "be cautiously optimistic"?
This now deprecated feature has been built twice by the Retool EPD team to handle task or queue-based workstreams.
What are Workflows or Flows?