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Pivoting to Retool (Changelog Interviews #650)
1 hour 21 minutes Posted Jul 17, 2025 at 9:00 pm.
This week on The Changelog
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Y Combinator experience
What is an internal tool
Pivoting to Retool
Ah ha! moment
Has the mission changed at all?
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Agents in the Enterprise
What agents are being built?
Agent framework
Internal tools templates
Internal tools at Retool
Can AI build my Retool tools?
App from DB?
Wrapping up
Closing thoughts and stuff
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David Hsu from Retool joins Adam to discuss how he built Retool. From the pivot in YC, to building the most widely used internal tools platform, to now being the platform for AI agents in the enterprise—on this episode we cover David journey from YC to building agents for the enterprise.

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