Quild Mini🦄 #151: Directus

This is the Quild Minicorn, highlighting one future of work minicorn every weekday - early-stage startups with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.

With over 19 million downloads, Directus is the world's first Open Data Platform for instantly turning any SQL database into an API and beautiful no-code apps.

Founders: Ben (CEO), Rijk (CTO)

Signals:

1. Repeat founder

   1. Ben has run multiples studios, labs, and consulting businesses

2. Top company alumni

   1. Ben led product strategy at AOL for a year

3. Accelerating team growth

   1. Grew 1.6x YoY to ~30 employees (intentionally keeping team small)

   2. Hiring several more

There’s not a lot of the traditional signals for Directus, another Quild outlier. The product they’ve built and the traction they’ve gotten are signals that speak for themselves.

Till next time, Kenn