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Acquired 5 
No Priors 5 
Lenny's Podcast 4 
BG2 Pod 3 
Cheeky Pint 3 
My First Million 3 
the Neon Show 2 
Mixergy 1 
A Product Market Fit Show 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where MySQL comes up on the MAD Podcast, 20VC, Latent Space, the a16z Podcast, Top Founders
The egoless culture that built Supabase | Paul Copplestone (Co-founder, CEO)
- ▶ 24:26 Paul Copplestone We weren't sure if people would understand it necessarily, why we were doing that, or they might even say, ah, I don't want Postgres, I want MySQL.
The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
- ▶ 29:36 Reynold Xin There's what we call OLTP databases, which are transactional, and think of your Postgres, your MySQL, your Oracle databases, and the other side is what we call analytics, and sometimes might have the term OLAP. 2 times in the scene
GitHub’s Agent Era: 14x Commits, 200M Developers, Copilot’s Next Act — Kyle Daigle
- ▶ 53:32 Kyle Daigle And so, right now, many of our permissioning layers sit into a database that we, like, internally call MySQL one, and old Hubbers will know what I'm talking about. 3 times in the scene
Extreme Harness Engineering: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code or review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI
- ▶ 29:37 unnamed speaker I think like the, the only argument I have against this is basically scale testing, which obviously the larger pieces of software like Linux, MySQL,
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:05 Jerry Murdock People couldn't afford to build websites with, uh, Sun, Sun servers and Oracle databases, which were expensive, but the lamp sack came out, which was Linux, Apache, web server, um, MySQL database and PHP front end development tool.
60 Minute Business Masterclass (worth more than your Stanford MBA)
- ▶ 20:33 Ben Horowitz Um, and we had, you know, the way the product is architected, we have like a MySQL layer and then an API and then the applications are built on the API. 2 times in the scene
Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom
- ▶ 1:04:09 Satya Nadella It's got to support, uh, MySQL and Postgres as first class. 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 22:20 Chris Degnan And we had MySQL as the metadata store, and it was just puking on itself.
Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 52:13 John Collison Proprietary databases used to be the best databases all the way through the nineties, and you had to, like, step one of founding an internet company was, you know, write a check to Oracle, and then you can do stuff after that, and then the…
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 33:41 Alex Schultz We couldn't exist without MySQL, PHP, all of these things, Memcache, OpenCompute, all of those things were critical to us existing as a company.
#2278 How to build a $15M/year AI company.
- ▶ 17:48 Pavel Dolezal It's a MySQL database.
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 5:41 Abhinav Asthana And, you know, from Visual Basic, I graduated to, I think building on PHP and MySQL.
China Open-Source, Compute Arms Race, Reordering Global Trade | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 36:51 Bill Gurley And eventually they all moved to Linux and MySQL.
Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder
⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
- ▶ 21:22 Zach Lloyd So if you're doing like work in Node or Python, Postgres, MySQL, it works in any REPL and it's a, uh, it's a pretty differentiated and cool feature of Warp.
Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet
- ▶ 10:28 David Kirkos Yeah, today we support MySQL, Microsoft Server, Snowflake, Postgres.
How Whop Is Making $1.2+ Billion For Creators · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 35:17 Jack Sharky Um, from like a technical standpoint, that means like you're moving from one database, which was called Postgres, to another one called MySQL, which is like not one-to-one. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:04 Jack Sharky Host on PlanetScale, MySQL database, our front ends all Next.js and React and TypeScript, and then we have a Swift app and an Android app in Kotlin.
OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
- ▶ 1:27:16 Kevin Weil The same way you used to have to get deep into, like, you know, what's your storage engine in MySQL? 2 times in the scene
The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot
- ▶ 18:49 Dharmesh Shah I think this is one of the challenges in terms of implementation of graph databases is that the most common approach that I've seen developers do, I've done it myself, is that, oh, I've got a Postgres database or a MySQL or whatever.
Fullstack-Bench: The Eval for Coding Agents — with Sujay Jayakar, Chief Scientist, Convex
- ▶ 0:43 Sujay Jayakar It's a database that's thought from first principles on what if we didn't have to use, you know, MySQL and Postgres and the same things we've been doing for 30 plus years.
- ▶ 19:18 Sujay Jayakar So like if it's writing a key value store and it's using say my sequel under the hood, but then it wants to use Redis on the side for caching, can it still be serializable?
DeepSeek, Open Source, Tariffs, DOGE, Market Impact | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 22:04 Bill Gurley If you look at all of the major projects like Linux or MySQL, and most of these, um, open source projects have a website, and you can see who the leading donors are, and just go to the Linux one.
Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
- ▶ 29:25 Justin Borgman It is connecting to your storage, uh, so it's your own S three buckets, your own, you know, RDS, your own MySQL database, uh, but the compute and the control plane is managed by us, and so we're able to offer a very seamless, easy to use,…
Building a $4B data platform: Inside dbt Labs' unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO)
- ▶ 4:55 Tristan Handy At Squarespace, I had been running the analytics function such as it was on like a, an old MySQL database.
Building a $20B+ Open Source Business with MongoDB and Viam's Eliot Horowitz
- ▶ 6:06 Eliot Horowitz Then you had the open source relational databases trying to go after those same things, you know, MySQL and Postgres.
Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
- ▶ 0:40 Florent Crivello So you can think of, we are to Langchain as Airtable to MySQL.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 37:26 David Rosenthal A rich web app as one of these projects, you know, fully built on the LAMP stack, and he had probably used the LAMP stack, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP for course match.
- ▶ 37:41 Ben Gilbert And so to be clear, that's an operating system, a web server with Apache, MySQL, the free open source database, PHP, the free open source programming language.
Ep18. Jensen Recap - Competitive Moat, X.AI, Smart Assistant | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 24:36 Bill Gurley And five years later, they were all running on Linux and MySQL, like in five years.
Customer.io Just Hit $70m Revenue - 9 mistakes to avoid with CEO Colin Nederkoorn
- ▶ 10:56 Colin Nederkoorn On, on the team that got acquired to help us recover, but it took us, because we were on this, like, really, I mean, it's, it was amazing tech, but because we were on, on this very special technology, it took ages to, we had to rewrite our…
Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
- ▶ 21:06 Tobie Morgan Hitchcock So in Postgres or relational database, something like MySQL, you traditionally have an ID field which is an integer.
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:44 Bret Taylor Built and financed by some of the hyperscalers, um, in partnership with the research labs, and that we would eventually have a meaningful open source model or two, the equivalent of Postgres and MySQL in the database market that would come… 2 times in the scene
Turbocharging Postgres for Time Series & Vectors — Timescale CTO Mike Freedman | Data Driven NYC
- ▶ 18:27 Mike Freedman Probably the only other big open source database out there is MySQL, and had a very different type of hooks, and of course it was Oracle at the time.
How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
- ▶ 13:34 Bob Moore oh, it turns out people that use MySQL are 30% more likely to become paying customers than people that use Postgres.
- ▶ 22:30 Bob Moore And then we would suck that into a hosted MySQL database.
- ▶ 41:20 Bob Moore And we were an analytics product that sold to marketing teams that was full stack and just so happened to have like a MySQL database in the middle.
Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- ▶ 5:25 Michelle Pokrass I think it's on MySQL, but I think that's the vision.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:02:31 Ben Gilbert I mean, if you think about where all the development efforts were going, it was the LAMP stack, the, uh, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, the stuff Facebook was written on.
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:19:39 Danny Rimer The first was, you know, I joined the board of MySQL after having lost the deal, so I,
How to Sell your Company for $60m (from a Founder who did it)
No Priors Ep 66 | With Y Combinator President and CEO Garry Tan
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:46 Tom Blomfield MySQL wrappers or AWS wrappers or something like, you know, it's the same kind of logic applies.
How to Bootstrap from 0 to Millions in Revenue w/ Ilya (CEO & Founder, Vanhack) · PMF Show
- ▶ 12:54 unnamed speaker So, uh, there was a lot of business English out there where you can learn about how to, you know, do, do English in a business environment, but there was no English for software engineers where you can learn how to pronounce like PHP Ruby…
The Truth About Building AI Startups Today · Y Combinator
Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:49 Jeff Seibert It is, it is like your MySQL database. 3 times in the scene
Episode 686 | How Much is Enough?, Outsourcing Marketing, and Mor...
- ▶ 30:35 Rob Walling But do I ever get an email that one of my plugins is, is out of date, or that the, you know, the theme is broken, or they're doing an upgrade to MySQL, and I need to go get my Gemini theme update?
Powering your Copilot for Data - with Artem Keydunov from Cube.dev
- ▶ 35:01 Artem Keydunov I think a lot of people feel that MySQL can be a warehouse, which can be maybe on like a lower scale, but you know, like, definitely not from a performance perspective.
No Priors Ep. 35 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24:04 Miles Grimshaw Which might not look like an applications, right, in the way that we think of them, but might look more like, you know, this control center idea will, um, have profound amounts of value to them, um, and will probably also pull through even…
Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:25 Richard Socher If you just want to build a smaller thing, use some MySQL open source database, and there's a bunch of others in between.
How We Scaled Founderpath to Process 200 Million Rows of Financial Data Per Day
- ▶ 19:21 Charlie Martin Um, we actually, we also have a MySQL database in there, um, like, for, for reasons unknown, because there's an engineer that set up that microservice wanted to use MySQL, um, but we predominantly use Postgres, yeah. 2 times in the scene
Why Vector Databases Are Exploding: Chroma Co-Founder Jeff Huber on Building AI-Native Infra
- ▶ 9:59 Jeff Huber Um, you know, if you look at, uh, conventional database, relational database, Postgres, MySQL, et cetera, it's basically two D data.
No Priors Ep. 11 | With Matei Zaharia, CTO of Databricks
- ▶ 39:37 Matei Zaharia There was a book on my sequel.
Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
- ▶ 1:01 Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock DynamoDB and MySQL.
Amjad Masad: How I Founded Replit; Zuck's Famous Saying; Will TikTok be banned? | E987 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:36 Amjad Masad And, and so you, you had a, you know, college student like, uh, like Zuck, you know, build a site that reaches, uh, reached a 1,000,000,001 billions of people because he used like PHP and MySQL and a bunch of libraries that were all…
Episode 638 | How to Generate Startup Ideas (Plus 8 Ideas You Can...
- ▶ 33:39 Rob Walling This is a piece of software that maybe you start with only, it only does MySQL to Postgres. 2 times in the scene
A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival | Cockroach CEO & Co-Founder, Spencer Kimball
- ▶ 1:51 Spencer Kimball IBM DB too, which you'd run on mainframes, Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL.
- ▶ 4:17 Spencer Kimball A mobile app of some sort a little bit later, but that actually opened up a gap between what the capabilities of the existing operational databases like Oracle or MySQL could provide for, and what the use case demanded. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:39 Spencer Kimball Can you talk about what in the MySQL architecture actually limits its ability to scale? 8 times in the scene
A Novel Approach to Data Quality for the Modern Data Stack | Datafold’s Gleb Mezhanskiy
- ▶ 16:00 Gleb Mezhanskiy Um, so here we are running data diff to compare Postgres to MySQL.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 48:06 Ben Gilbert And if you told me, and I, of course I was writing PHP and querying a MySQL database.
- ▶ 48:10 Ben Gilbert And if you told me, oh yeah, you can't query the MySQL database, even though you have access to it.
How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth | Crystal Widjaja, Gojek and Kumu
- ▶ 6:17 Crystal Widjaja And so I ended up kind of Google-fooing all of the work needed to build a MySQL database. 2 times in the scene
Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:31 Dalton Caldwell They would have a separate MySQL server for every school, and they would have like a memcache instance for every school. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:14 Dalton Caldwell And it would, it would fire off on MySQL thread where you would log in, it would look at your friends and it would calculate your friends and friends and show you a live number of how big your extended network was. 2 times in the scene
Lessons Learned Building a $2 Billion Company from Scratch with Neo4j CEO & Co-Founder Emil Eifrem
- ▶ 27:46 Emil Eifrem And now we have this other big platform shift from client server, maybe to web, which is where MySQL has been built, but now from that to the cloud, and that opens up this, this, this white space where you can build infrastructure…
MVP Power: Found Tech Co-Founder on Upwork, $0 to $180,000 in under 12 months
- ▶ 15:32 Nathan Latka Was it setting up a MySQL database?
Picking the Perfect Pricing Model that Fits Your App and More with HackerOne's CEO Marten Mickos
- ▶ 15:09 Mårten Mickos I was involved in this when I was CEO of MySQL, and we competed against Oracle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:23 Mårten Mickos And we saw that in open source software with MySQL, that most people never paid anything.
The Secrets Behind Creating Scalable Products with Box CEO, Aaron Levie and SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 24:59 Aaron Levie But I mean, if, uh, if, if, you know, Martin Mikos was here, we'd be talking about MySQL. 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: DeVaris Brown (Founder & CEO, Meroxa) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 11:28 DeVaris Brown Um, and that, that allows you to do things like, now I don't have to have the Postgres to Redshift connector or the MySQL to Salesforce connector.
Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 21:15 Dev Ittycheria Uh, in fact, I would argue, for example, that AWS has done a better job monetizing MySQL than MySQL, Sun, or Oracle ever did, right? 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Dave Burgess (Head of Data Engineering, Pinterest) w/ Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 5:58 Dave Burgess And so we query Intelli, uh, to Presto, to Hive, uh, to Spark SQL, uh, to MySQL, but you can do it with other engines too.
- ▶ 22:14 Dave Burgess So that includes the online databases like MySQL and key value stores like RocksDB and HBase, and also includes Druid platform.
Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 10:30 Tristan Handy Um, there might be a large number of people who have tried to like write an analysis on MySQL and like found that that's like not a wonderful experience.
Episode 520 | Why a Million Dollar Agency Quit It All and Moved to SaaS
- ▶ 28:29 Keith Perhack So what, what happened was that there's something in MySQL five, seven or whatever you're using that made the database fill up in about an hour. 3 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: George Fraser (Founder & CEO, Fivetran) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 9:13 George Fraser It is a mammoth task to be able to do essentially change data capture out of every single application, every kind of database, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, you name it.
- ▶ 13:12 George Fraser Um, so there's database systems like MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, MongoDB, you name it.
8base is a next generation backend-as-a-service for powering SaaS and other go-to-market applications.
- ▶ 17:55 Albert Santalo Their data's in MySQL.
Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 14:13 Nate Stewart If you, you know, Amazon Aurora is really Amazon Aurora Postgres or Amazon Aurora MySQL. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:32 unnamed speaker For example, Mongo went after a novel paradigm and application developers, um, for people who want SQL, they have Postgres, MySQL.
FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space
- ▶ 2:58 Brian Pontarelli So it's similar to like, uh, my SQL model or any of those.
Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- ▶ 1:54 Siddhartha Ahluwalia LoopNet, Motorsport, MySQL acquired by Oracle, Netflix, one of the largest companies in the world in OTT space.
- ▶ 26:43 Somesh Dash Um, but we also saw open source as a trend that we got really excited about, which led us to our investment in MySQL, one of my first investments I got to work on.
Fireside Chat: Mike Volpi, General Partner, Index Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 7:55 Mike Volpi The first generation was all open, all support, so there's, ah, MySQL,
How to Build an Open Source Business
- ▶ 0:44 Peter Levine It's interesting to note here that MySQL, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 for a billion dollars.
What's Next for Open-Source Time Series Data? // Paul Dix, Influx Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Optionality in Data Architecture // Justin Borgman, Starburst Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 2:12 Justin Borgman So whereas Hive was exclusively focused on Hadoop, they needed something that could query data in Hadoop as well as MySQL. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:55 Justin Borgman Um, this is, uh, maybe a little hard for some of you guys to see, uh, but it shows at the top, uh, a variety of popular BI tools that you can connect to using ODBC or JDBC drivers, and on the bottom, a variety of data sources, and you'll…
a16z Podcast | Crypto And The Evolution Of Open Source
- ▶ 3:29 Dennis Nazarov So something, you know, like MySQL is an open source database. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:18 Dennis Nazarov Just because I can run my sequel doesn't mean I'm going to get a billion users and all the data Facebook has.
a16z Podcast | Monetizing Open Source (Or, All Enterprise Software)
- ▶ 6:14 Martin Casado It's actually, from, from my conversations, it's almost somewhat of a contrarian view, because traditionally you're like, open source projects chase after basically the sales dollars that have matured to market, like MySQL, you know, like…
a16z Podcast | Selling to Developers & Open Source Business Models
- ▶ 15:37 Martin Casado And so, I mean, when I look at my SQL, I think, okay,
a16z Podcast | An Open Source Business Model That Works
- ▶ 7:05 Ben Uretsky So I think the example that he used was, uh, uh, in this particular case, leveraging AWS's RDS product, which is basically MySQL as, as a service.
a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future
- ▶ 23:41 Chris Dixon So for example, MySQL, the company had the MySQL developers, right? 2 times in the scene
Crypto and the Evolution of Open Source
Infrastructure for Non Devs: What CEOs Really Need to Know in 2017
- ▶ 6:23 Adam Gross Probably most of the companies, I don't know what the average age of the company represented here, but it's still not uncommon, or it's still common for companies to run their own database services, to run their own instances of MySQL or…
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