MongoDB
includes MongoDB Masters, MongoDB University
5 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by James Waters · said 46 times in 8 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Seema Amble (21), Eliot Horowitz (18), Peter Levine (1), Matei Zaharia (1), Jesse Walden (1), James Waters (1), Chris Wanstrath (1), Augusto Marietti (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 39 mentions in 1 episode
2019 5 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- How to Build an Open Source Business
- a16z Podcast | Crypto And The Evolution Of Open Source
- a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
- a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need
- a16z Podcast | A Conversation With the Inventor of Spark
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about MongoDB, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Dec 13, 2024
Horowitz: MongoDB was first to offer an embedded in-browser shell
“Mike, he had an early idea at Mongo where we, and this is before we were the first people to do this. I believe we had a little try Mongo shell embedded in the website where you can actually just go to the website and type a few queries and understand what the…”
Dec 13, 2024 neutral
Horowitz: MongoDB intentionally avoided targeting specific industry use cases early on
“We were pretty intentionally not use case driven. And we had a lot of people telling us to try to be more use case driven. And we got a little bit more use case driven as we built more of an enterprise sales team. But in the beginning, we were very, very broad…”
Dec 13, 2024 positive
Horowitz: Monetize open source by commercializing unavoidable infrastructure costs
“Both at Mongo and at VM, the way I always thought about it was, you know, the core product is open source, and that things you'd have to pay for anyway should be commercialized, and by making it really easy and making it the best way to use the product, you ca…”
Dec 13, 2024 negative
Horowitz: Adopting MongoDB helped legacy enterprises recruit engineers avoiding Oracle
“In 2012, 2013, no engineer coming out of school was really excited to go work on Oracle. And so using MongoDB was actually a huge win for some of these sort of older enterprises. Where developers were like, oh, I can go work at this real company, make real mon…”