Retool CEO David Hsu on Finding Product-Market Fit via Sales
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In the last 40 years, programming has seen major advancements from punched cards to assembly and then to compiled languages which led to significant productivity enhancements. However, in the past 30 years, programming languages have largely remained stagnant, showing minimal innovation compared to other sectors. This stagnation is reflected in the productivity of engineers which seems to be trailing GDP growth. The idea behind retool is to introduce a higher level approach similar to the leap from punch cards to assembly or assembly to higher-level languages, signifying the need for further innovation in programming.
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