MongoDB, every mention
28 scenes (2024), the whole family · ← back to MongoDB
every year 2024 anyone Harry Stebbings 63Jason Lemkin 26Kevin Ryan 15Dev Ittycheria 9Chris Degnan 7Jason Calacanis 4Chad Peets 4Ishan Mukherjee 3Chandra Narayanan 3Carlos Delatorre 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where MongoDB comes up
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:40 Dan Fougere Carlos goes to MongoDB to build that sales organization.
- ▶ 1:13:58 Dan Fougere Uh, I had a really terrible meeting, uh, and I was on my way home and the great and powerful David Achiria called me and, uh, he said, Hey, first they wanted me to come be the number two guy for to Carlos at Mongo.
Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:45 Chad Peets So I know if you're full of shit, I know who the good sales leaders are, and if I see you went to a company that I know, AppDynamics, MongoDB, Snowflake, where they have great sales leaders, and you say, oh, I went to work for
Saam Motamedi: Why Series B Won’t Make Money & Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | E1177 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:07 Harry Stebbings We did a show with Jason Lampkin this week in SAS and it was Mongo down 20%, Salesforce down 20%, UI path down 30%.
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Alex Wang: Why Data Not Compute is the Bottleneck to Foundation Model Performance | E1164 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:11 Harry Stebbings Salesforce are now growing at single digits, like Mongo are now growing at single digits.
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:56 Jason Lemkin That's Mongo.
- ▶ 15:09 Jason Lemkin These, these devastating falls from Salesforce and Mongo and Workday and others are about that they're 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:24 Jason Lemkin It wasn't as big a deal as Salesforce and Mongo and DB.
- ▶ 28:25 Jason Lemkin I think the Mongo crash was merited based on them saying, hey, we're only gonna grow in the teens. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:44 Harry Stebbings The final one that got slammed was Mongo. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:42 Jason Lemkin So it's like we can look at all the, the, the, you know, the Mongos and the Workday's and the Salesforce, they looked down, but I, I found six, six leaders that are all growing at nutso.
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:12 Kevin Ryan Unfortunately, there's a couple of different dimensions that the monetary, uh, answer is Mongo by far, you know, Mongo's worth twenty five billion dollars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:45 Kevin Ryan You know, Mongo, we lost a billion dollars before we had a profitable quarter.
- ▶ 8:58 Harry Stebbings Could Mongo have existed in a down period? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:19 Kevin Ryan And actually, when we started Mongo, the reason we had trouble, uh, raising money, even though we had already had a very successful company, was because people said, you've never done a database before.
- ▶ 19:56 Kevin Ryan No, Dave's, Dave's done a great job at Mongo.
- ▶ 25:19 Kevin Ryan I mean, you know, if you said, why is Mongo a very successful company?
- ▶ 29:19 Kevin Ryan So for example, we had no revenues after three years at Mongo. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:23 Kevin Ryan MongoDB, one of the most successful databases companies ever started.
- ▶ 44:57 Kevin Ryan Like, you know, we were never open to selling Mongo, no matter what, because we really thought we were building a 10 or twenty billion dollar company, and so we had confidence.
- ▶ 48:55 Harry Stebbings But the truth is, honestly, Kevin, like if you only ever had Mongo.
- ▶ 59:30 Kevin Ryan So we talk about Mongo and Datadog. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:09 Kevin Ryan Oh, by far, it was, I mean, financially, it was working with two other co-founders and starting Mongo. 2 times in the scene
Chandra Narayanan: Top 5 Lessons from Leading Analytics at Facebook | E1126 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:21 Chandra Narayanan I, I worked with MongoDB while in Sequoia. 3 times in the scene
Dave Kellogg: How to Forecast in 2024 & Why CaC Payback is Flawed and CAC Ratio is Better | E1110 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:50 Harry Stebbings I think of, you know, MongoDB with Dev,
Ed Sim & Jamin Ball: Did Figma Kill M&A Markets & 3 Requirements to IPO in 2024 | E1101 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:36 Jamin Ball You had companies like Twilio and Mongo and Shopify, right?
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:28 Jason Lemkin Mongo up 112%.