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<ul><li>Retool found product-market fit saving developer time building admin panels, dashboards, and other simple internal CRUD tools (create-read-update-delete) in ~1 day instead of ~2 weeks by giving them pre-built components to wire up on top of their production database.</li><li>Retool is per-seat subscription SaaS—they went from $10M ARR in 2020 to $30M ARR in 2021, and as of 2022, they’re at $82M ARR, growing 173% year-over-year.</li><li>Retool’s strength in the enterprise comes from its engineering-centric paradigm that unlike no-code tools, allows teams to build secure tooling for ETL tasks ala Census ($80M raised), devops ala Sentry ($3B valuation) and metrics reporting ala Looker (acq. for $2.6B) with access management, data integrity and other safety guarantees around their mission-critical production data and business logic—without having to buy more enterprise SaaS.</li></ul>

Retool found product-market fit saving developer time building admin panels, dashboards, and other simple internal CRUD tools (create-read-update-delete) in ~1 day instead of ~2 weeks by giving them pre-built components to wire up on top of their production database.Retool is per-seat subscription SaaS—they went from $10M ARR in 2020 to $30M ARR in 2021, and as of 2022, they’re at $82M ARR, growing 173% year-over-year.Retool’s strength in the enterprise comes from its engineering-centric paradigm that unlike no-code tools, allows teams to build secure tooling for ETL tasks ala Census ($80M raised), devops ala Sentry ($3B valuation) and metrics reporting ala Looker (acq. for $2.6B) with access management, data integrity and other safety guarantees around their mission-critical production data and business logic—without having to buy more enterprise SaaS.

Retool: The $82M ARR Internal App Builder

<ul><li>Adobe announced today that it has agreed to buy Figma in a deal valued at $20B.</li><li>Figma is at about $340M ARR now, growing 100% YoY and projected to cross $400M ARR by end of year.</li><li>Even with instant distribution to 26M+ Creative Cloud customers, Adobe XD failed in its attempt to use bundlenomics to dislodge Figma’s dominant position among designers.</li></ul>

Adobe announced today that it has agreed to buy Figma in a deal valued at $20B.Figma is at about $340M ARR now, growing 100% YoY and projected to cross $400M ARR by end of year.Even with instant distribution to 26M+ Creative Cloud customers, Adobe XD failed in its attempt to use bundlenomics to dislodge Figma’s dominant position among designers.

<ul><li>I think QuickBooks and Xero are excellent tools, and they integrate well with other companies.</li><li>Right now, Pry doesn’t offer this sort of “budget and it ties to your card” reconciliation yet.</li><li>Our mission at inDinero was to automate the CFO, and it&#39;s in some sense still here with me at Pry.</li></ul>

I think QuickBooks and Xero are excellent tools, and they integrate well with other companies.Right now, Pry doesn’t offer this sort of “budget and it ties to your card” reconciliation yet.Our mission at inDinero was to automate the CFO, and it&#39;s in some sense still here with me at Pry.

Andy Su, co-founder Of Pry, On Building The "Figma Of Finance"

<ul><li>For me, what it came down to at Gamma is, we&#39;re not trying to create an incrementally better slideware tool.</li><li>So all these things -- realizing that there&#39;s a massive opportunity where how we work today has dramatically shifted how this medium that has been used universally across companies of all sizes to communicate, share ideas and bounce things back and forth, could look like -- is what got us excited about Gamma.</li><li>Obviously COVID rapidly accelerated our shift away from this era of work.</li></ul>

For me, what it came down to at Gamma is, we&#39;re not trying to create an incrementally better slideware tool.So all these things -- realizing that there&#39;s a massive opportunity where how we work today has dramatically shifted how this medium that has been used universally across companies of all sizes to communicate, share ideas and bounce things back and forth, could look like -- is what got us excited about Gamma.Obviously COVID rapidly accelerated our shift away from this era of work.

Grant Lee, co-founder Of Gamma, On Rethinking The Primitives Of Presentations

<ul><li>Milk was meant to be a better video editing tool for businesses.</li><li>The reason that Loom is such a powerful tool is you just hit play, you do it, and then you&#39;re done.</li><li>Tools like Descript are a glimpse into what&#39;s possible, automating speech to text with word-by-word timestamps.</li></ul>

Milk was meant to be a better video editing tool for businesses.The reason that Loom is such a powerful tool is you just hit play, you do it, and then you&#39;re done.Tools like Descript are a glimpse into what&#39;s possible, automating speech to text with word-by-word timestamps.

Lenny Bogdonoff, co-founder And CTO Of Milk Video, On The Video Infrastructure Value Chain

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Figma, Inc. provides software solutions. The Company offers a browser-based platform for developers, product managers, and marketers which helps them with user interface designing, prototyping, and collaboration. Figma serves customers in the United States.

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Retool: The $82M ARR Internal App Builder

Retool went from bottom-up PLG to enterprise elephant-hunting en route to $82M ARR. Now they’re building out a parallel, low-code version of the...

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How Figma Defied Adobe's Bundlenomics

Figma's $20B sale to Adobe reflects both that it beat back Adobe's attempt to break it with bundle economics, and that it faced the daunting task...

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Andy Su, co-founder Of Pry, On Building The "Figma Of Finance"

Sacra interview with Andy Su, the co-founder and CEO of Pry.

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Grant Lee, co-founder Of Gamma, On Rethinking The Primitives Of Presentations

Sacra interview with Grant Lee, the CEO and co-founder of Gamma.

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Lenny Bogdonoff, co-founder And CTO Of Milk Video, On The Video Infrastructure Value Chain

The Sacra expert interview with Milk Video co-founder and CTO Lenny Bogdonoff. We talked to Lenny about where value is likely to accrue in the...

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