Fast Frontend Development with David Hsu
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Retool is a platform to help engineers quickly build internal frontends. It does this by abstracting away repetitive aspects of frontend development. The platform was started in 2017 and has received funding from Sequoia, Stripe Co-Founders, and Nat Friedman.
David Hsu is the founder and CEO of Retool. He joins the show to talk about why he started coding, studying philosophy and computer science, Retool’s tech stack, and more.
Paweł is the founder at flat.social the world’s first ‘flatverse’ start-up and glot.space, an AI-powered language learning app. Pawel’s background is as a full-stack software engineer with a lean and experimental approach towards product development. With a strong grounding in computing science, he spent the last decade getting early-stage products off the ground – both in startup and corporate settings. Follow Paweł on Twitter, LinkedIn and his personal website – pawel.io.
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