Hi everyone I'm Rose Marie Miller and we are backstage at the Forbes 30 under 30 summit and I have the pleasure of speaking with the CEO and founder of Retool David Sue.

David, thank you so much for joining me.

Excited to be here.

Are there any other titles you'd like to add to that

before we keep going?

Oh no, let's go.

So David, what's your background and also tell me the inspiration for Retool?

Yeah, so Retool is sort of an enterprise software company.

We started actually because we had a lot of problems as

developers ourselves and engineers itself building sort of internal software and

so we're like maybe there could be a faster way of building all the software so

that's how we first got started. So how is AI kind of affecting

Ritool? Yeah it's actually sort of a really big tail one for us in a sense that I

think a lot of people now are looking a lot of enterprises especially are looking to how can I sort of

incorporate AI how do I build more apps like use AI etc so it's a real talent for

us it's pretty exciting I love how you're just like you're just like you're

just kind of like built retool no David no that's just not how things went wrong along the way of

kind of like built retool. No, David, no, that's just not how things went wrong along the way. Tell me about some of those things that went wrong.

I'm sure someone would appreciate it.

Yeah, well let me think. What's a stressful moment? So we went through this

accelerator called white combinator and white combinator happens twice a

year and at the end of every batch there's something called a demo day which is sort of

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