Corey Knowles

Yeah, so it is actually some people from accounting.

I would say that what we've noticed over the last few years here at Retool is the number of non-engineers using our platform to build software has steadily increased and actually really sharply increased over the last few months.

But if you look back, I think, four to five years, actually, Retool was entirely built for engineers.

It was a platform that you kind of needed to know how to code in order to use it.

You needed to know how to write SQL.

You needed to know JavaScript in order to go use the platform.

And I think over the past five, six years, there's been a trend towards people becoming a bit more technical.

So you see, for example, people working in revenue operations and even people operations in the finance department, being able to learn a little bit of SQL, maybe be able to hack together a little bit of JavaScript.

And so five years ago, I think it was maybe 5% of retool builders were, I would say, non-engineers.

And actually last year, I think it was around 30, 35%.

Today it's around 50, I think 55%.

I think if you had asked me this question in 2023, let's say, I would have said yes.

I mean, I think those are the two answers.

I think the fact that

I think programming is, or for example today, I think as a college, if you go through college, I think some large percentage of people now take one CompSci class.

And taking one CompSci class does not make you a programmer, but you probably can start understanding, okay, well, you know, to write a five line SQL statement, I could probably write that actually after one CompSci class.

Yeah.

I think there's just a lot more general knowledge of computer programming than ever before.

So I think that's one.

The second, like you said, is with a platform like GreenTool, now people that can write a bit of SQL can now go build a production web app.