Management 

Peter Reinhardt [47:15] - It was a huge turning point around 10 million in revenue when we hired the first two sort of execs to the team. One was our VP of engineering and the other was our VP of people. They were the first people who had previously been managers. Our VP of engineering had managed a team of 150 at  Dropbox . We went from literally zero  management  experience aside from what had been picked up along the way growing from zero to 50 people, to having someone who really knew it or two people who really knew what they were doing. That was hugely impactful and we should have figured out a way to do that earlier. 50 people and 10 million in revenue or whatever it was was way too late for that. 

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And so, the way I had described the company, in the beginning, was I said, "We are building a content  management  system that has a concept called reversible forms that allows you to both put data input in from the back end, and also collect data from users on the front end." That's a horrible description of a company. And part of that idea that fed that is like, I wanted to be a content  management  system because what was hot at the  time , it was buzz, where it was movable type in WordPress. We wanted to build software like that and we wanted to build a new version of this. 

Let's talk about  Retool . They were in Winter 17, and they are a really good  SaaS  company. And honestly, everyone should check it out and maybe use it. It's a  tool  to build internal tools. It's awesome. I'm encouraging all the  YC   startups  to use this to build internal  management  pages. It's actually a really great  product . So that's what  Retool  is. You should look at it.