MySQL

part of MySQL AB

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 20, 2017 by Harj Taggar · said 17 times in 13 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Jan 20, 2017 bullish
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Taggar Predicts In-House Developer Recruitment Will Be Obsolete by 2022
“And so five years from now, the grand vision would be To think about like running your own hiring process versus just using triple byte as being as outdated as hiring engineers to build a database from scratch versus just using MySQL or Postgres.”
Harj Taggar Jan 20, 2017 ▶ 25:55 20VC: Biggest Takeaways From Working With Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, Why You Should Put Off Hiring For As Long As Possible & Why Seed Stage Investing Is All About Optimising The Top Of The Funnel with Harj Taggar, Founder & CEO @ Triplebyte
Nov 22, 2023 bearish
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Seibert: In 5 years, AI wrappers will look like MySQL forms
“It's really important to me that people view this as a technology. It is like your MySQL database. MySQL was very popular 20 years ago, right? Like it was super cool what it could do. And it's still cool, but if you try to go raise money on you've built a form…”
Jeff Seibert Nov 22, 2023 ▶ 26:45 Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 10, 2025
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Snowflake paused sales hiring for six months to replace MySQL with FoundationDB
“And we had MySQL as the metadata store, and it was just puking on itself. And so they had to take that and bring in a new thing called FoundationDB to do that. And doing that was a six-month project.”
Chris Degnan Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 22:20 20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan
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