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How the most successful B2B startups came up with their original idea

Lenny's Newsletter

” — Eilon Reshef , co-founder and CPO David Hsu, the founder of Retool , found himself building the same product over and over at each company he worked at: “Perhaps a little-known fact is that I had actually started a couple of other companies and products before Retool. ’ It’s late 2016, and so.

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Reflecting on 10 Years of Building Buffer

Buffer

An offer like that drives existential questioning, making you really think about the purpose and fulfillment of what you’re doing. 2016: Launching Reply, then facing cash-flow challenges and layoffs. A chart showing our bank balance projections for 2016. 2017 was perhaps the hardest year of the Buffer journey so far.