Database Companies
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Copplestone: Only Firebase and MongoDB succeeded targeting day zero workloads
“If you look back over the past 20 years, probably the only database companies that have really managed to do well Ah, Firebase and Mongo, and they did well because they targeted these day zero workloads that you kind of would choose them before you even knew w…”
Eskildsen: Generational database companies require fundamentally new workloads
“If you want to build a generational database company, you need two and a half things. The first thing that you need is that you need a new workload, because if you want to make it as a really large billion dollar plus database company, you need a reason for mo…”
Goyal: New Databases Succeed Only When Storage and Compilers Rewire Together
“So in my observation, database companies tend to succeed when the storage paradigm Is closely tied to the execution paradigm, and both of those things need to be rewired to work. I think, remember, the databases are not just storage, but they're also compilers…”