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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where PostgreSQL comes up on the MAD Podcast, Latent Space, the Official SaaStr Podcast, In Depth, 20VC
ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern
- ▶ 30:51 Aaron Katz It can select a managed Postgres service because you want to support transactions.
Who Owns Your Data Now? Agents vs. Systems of Record on The Agents #013
- ▶ 7:52 Jason Lemkin For a, for Postgres, like a Supabase or Neon that we run our Replit apps on, 4 times in the scene
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 9:41 Jason Lemkin And they were both so clever pre-AI, and they both took off in different ways, but we don't really, you know, Supabase is doing a million Postgres databases a week on its own.
The Agents #12 - Our AI Agent Rewrote Our App Without Telling Us
- ▶ 34:37 Jason Lemkin Can't you use Postgres, right?
Most Valuable Skill of 2026: Managing AI Agents
- ▶ 10:07 Ryan Carson There's this reality of you have to understand what Postgres is.
The Hidden Layer Every Al Product Needs Today | Atin Sanyal Founder, Galileo
- ▶ 1:00:42 Atin Sanyal And in an era where you can build an, you know, a website and a web application with a Postgres database behind in 30 seconds,
Software in the Age of Agents | The a16z Show
- ▶ 0:32 Seema Amble Misconception right now is that you can just have, you know, Postgres database and APIs, and then bam, like you can replace SAP.
- ▶ 17:58 Seema Amble I think that's a good point to double click on, because I think a misconception right now is that SAP, okay, well, you can just have, you know, Postgres database and APIs, and then bam, like you can replace API, replace SAP.
Accel: The Quiet Firm Behind Facebook, Cursor, Nebius, Lovable, Vercel · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 30:56 Arun Mathew It's built on top of Postgres, which is the most widely used database language and framework that's out there, but it's just an incredibly easy tool to use.
The egoless culture that built Supabase | Paul Copplestone (Co-founder, CEO)
- ▶ 5:00 Paul Copplestone We were using Postgres for most of our database workload, but then for the chat side, I was using Firebase because it's got this nice real time functionality. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:21 Paul Copplestone And this was important because as well, Postgres is so versatile. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:25 Paul Copplestone The Firebase positioning out there, they actually wanted these other things, and of course, I only really wanted to build the database offering, but Auth made sense because I thought we could do a better product for the market by putting…
- ▶ 24:20 Paul Copplestone And then we smuggled Postgres, and a lot of, at the start, we didn't promote too much that it was Postgres. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:17 Paul Copplestone So if you ever have an issue, you can kind of like with our Postgres pgdump and take it somewhere else. 3 times in the scene
The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
- ▶ 16:36 Shawn Wang I think one of those things that is, is really interesting to me is, well, first of all, I'll, I'll endeavor to do everything and not call it the modern AI staff, because I think we need a different name, but like, yes, like, you know, um,…
- ▶ 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. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:06 Reynold Xin But in there, we're writing in Postgres pages. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:10 Reynold Xin Instead of worrying about PostgreSQL and maybe Spark SQL, why not just one? 2 times in the scene
The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:50 Bryant Chou and, you know, go use a Postgres hosted Postgres server, but if you're a small business owner, if you're a CMO, you don't want to worry about that.
Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:39 unnamed speaker Isn't it Superbase is the Postgres database.
GitHub’s Agent Era: 14x Commits, 200M Developers, Copilot’s Next Act — Kyle Daigle
- ▶ 1:00:39 Shawn Wang The whole Postgres drama.
Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
- ▶ 57:58 Walden Yan For example, you probably do want a local DB set out the local doc compose and, and Postgres in order
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:20:29 unnamed speaker Um, if you want to build your own CRM on top of Postgres, go for it.
Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:48 Pete Koomen Uh, which is that we run on our own software and all of that software sits on one Postgres database that has everything that's important to YC's world in it.
The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
- ▶ 2:32 Jake Cooper You just go to the Canvas, or you talk with Claude, um, and you say, deploy Postgres instance, deploy my GitHub repository, run this code, et cetera, right?
- ▶ 31:55 Jake Cooper Deploy new Postgres instances.
- ▶ 50:30 Jake Cooper I've got access to a Postgres instance now, right?
Our AI is Hiring! Would You Work for One? And Are Autonomous Agents ... Safe? The Agents #005
- ▶ 3:51 Jason Lemkin The second obvious point it made is a lot of what we're doing is storing massive amounts of data, at least massive for us, maybe not massive compared to a lot of folks in a Postgres database, which we'll talk about later, Postgres versus… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:10 Jason Lemkin And maybe you could even, if you're building in cloud code, I guess you could do this, but you probably wouldn't because what you get out of repli or lovable or similar apps is you don't just get a production environment with a date, what…
- ▶ 47:25 Jason Lemkin The code base doesn't have to overlap per se, but to have, and I know they have three different Postgres and three different agents, but if they could build this, I don't even know what it is, this common layer where they can orchestrate…
- ▶ 49:42 Jason Lemkin And solopreneurs and others, but because I don't think a big enterprise would really ask the question this way, but we get this question a lot, which is Postgres versus Salesforce. 14 times in the scene
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
Why Your Next Hire Should Report to an AI, Tragedy Apps, and Too Many AI SDRs? | The Agents #004
- ▶ 1:18:10 Jason Lemkin Why don't we use Postgres instead of Salesforce? 3 times in the scene
⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
- ▶ 39:47 Shawn Wang You can tell I'm like very Postgres-centric.
Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
- ▶ 51:40 Shawn Wang Notions underlying database is Postgres, right?
OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:56 unnamed speaker And they're like, oh, well, we'll do another fork of Postgres, which is open source and free, and we'll make it easier to use and easier to deploy. 4 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- ▶ 45:00 Marc Andreessen Um, and so you wanted to, you wanted to unleash the underlying latent power of whether it was an Oracle database or some other, you know, some other Postgres or whatever, whatever it was.
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 27:14 Felix Rieseberg If you want to know something, if you post here, maybe you can do post SQL.
Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
- ▶ 10:06 Simon Eskildsen And I was just getting their Postgres up to snuff, like, which basically boils down to tuning auto vacuum. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:38 Simon Eskildsen I think neon neon was, was first to, and they're trying to retrofit it onto Postgres.
- ▶ 27:44 Simon Eskildsen So I, I went to San Francisco and I went to their office and the way that I remember it is that Postgres was down. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:44 Simon Eskildsen If you're trying to do not search on Turbo Puffer as the primary use case, you probably shouldn't, but we see some customers that are like, oh, um, like at some point, cursor moved like 20 terabytes of Postgres data into Turbo Puffer,…
Claude Code & MCPs built my $145K marketing machine
- ▶ 39:52 Cody Schneider I had to push it into a Postgres database that I on the fly created using the Railway API. 2 times in the scene
AI Needs to Know Why You took THAT decision | Ashu Garg, Investor at Foundation Capital
Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:41 Jason Lemkin But if they change their mind, um, there's no reason an agent, there's no reason they can't, they can't license Supabase or Neon or fork their own Postgres.
#2297 Elad Gil backed 40 unicorns. This is next
The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:17 Harj Taggar It's just like, then, if you look at, like, the number of databases being created over, like, simple database, Postgres databases over, like, the last 12 months, and the numbers just exploded, um, and that's because it's all people vibe… 2 times in the scene
The SaaSpocalypse is Cancelled, WB Back in Play, Zuck Grilled in LA Trial | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:50 John Coogan Then you'll install Claudebot on a Mac mini vibe coded dashboard on top of a Postgres database and say, we're all just a couple Ralph loops away from building a Salesforce competitor.
The SaaSpocalypse Is Over
- ▶ 14:12 John Coogan Then you'll install clodbot on a Mac mini vibe coded dashboard on top of a Postgres database and say, we're all just a couple Ralph loops away from building a Salesforce competitor.
We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
The Claude Code Skill My Smartest Friends Use
- ▶ 15:36 Matt Van Horn Postgres full MVP.
Screensharing Kevin Rose's AI Workflow/New App
- ▶ 8:50 Kevin Rose So, you know, 21, 25 minutes ago, 29 minutes ago, The Verge, nine to five, and so we're pulling in and saving all of this in a Postgres database, and then we're also going in and doing things like figuring out who the authors are,
- ▶ 16:55 Kevin Rose But the point is that if you take a keyword rich and kind of deep understanding piece of content, you can create mathematical representations of that content and embed these with open AI and store them in Postgres by using a vector…
Satya Nadella on AI’s Business Revolution: What Happens to SaaS, OpenAI, and Microsoft?
- ▶ 23:15 Satya Nadella I mean, talk about Postgres or what has happened even with Mongo, which is open, but there are even companies that have backed it.
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 48:59 Jason Calacanis It really looked like they were being maimed by all the new Postgres and other competitors.
Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:58 Jason Lemkin I mean, at the end of the day, Superbase is just, I think a fork of Postgres.
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
He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. | Simon Eskild... · PMF Show
- ▶ 0:19 Simon Eskildsen I showed up on a Monday afternoon, and they were having problems with the Postgres database. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:38 Simon Eskildsen This was a real bootstrap company that had spent 3000 dollars or so per month on their Postgres.
- ▶ 25:52 Simon Eskildsen And the way I remember it is that I showed up and they were having problems with the Postgres database. 3 times in the scene
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Live on TBPN
- ▶ 12:34 Satya Nadella Do you love Postgres?
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 2:14 Amjad Masad If it's like a web app, we'll pick JavaScript and Postgres and things like that.
- ▶ 13:50 Amjad Masad Oh, there's a tool here that says Postgres.
- ▶ 21:51 Amjad Masad Uh, and then it might review its work and decide the next step, or it might kick into the testing agent, or, you know, so, so you're seeing it do all of that, and every once in a while, it calls the tool, for example, it stops and says,…
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 53:32 Kevin Rose I can connect up Supabase and, you know, have a Postgres database tied to it.
- ▶ 1:00:02 Kevin Rose Um, it's a real-time database, so it's great for applications like chat and how fast you got chat up and running with Vibecode is insane to me because I had built a chat thing on Postgres
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:17 Jason Lemkin It's, it is the default choice to how to, how to, how to host and manage Postgres in this world.
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…
Is Generative AI a Cybersecurity Disaster Waiting to Happen? — With Yinon Costica
- ▶ 3:45 Yinon Costica There are six technologies that are used to build AI technologies like NVIDIA, uh, like, uh, PostgreSQL.
From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo
- ▶ 57:21 Lenny Rachitsky Beyond analytics events, their data warehouse enables you to sync data from your Postgres database, Stripe, HubSpot, S-III, and many more sources.
How I Made $65K in 3 Days
- ▶ 13:24 Deven Bhooshan I use Postgres for DB, Superbase for auth and, like, assets, Railway for hosting, Framer for landing page, Supergrove AI for LinkedIn content creation, Intercom for live chat, Mixpanel for product analytics, Stripe for payments, and…
Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
- ▶ 51:45 Lenny Rachitsky Beyond analytics events, their data warehouse enables you to sync data from your Postgres database, Stripe, HubSpot, S-III, and many more sources.
Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger
What Braintrust got right about product-market fit | Ankur Goyal (Founder and CEO)
- ▶ 39:19 Ankur Goyal And we tried using all of the stuff that we were using like Postgres and ClickHouse.
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- ▶ 40:59 Lenny Rachitsky Beyond analytics events, their data warehouse enables you to sync data from your Postgres database, Stripe, HubSpot, S-III, and many more sources.
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 1:31:37 unnamed speaker Just like, you know, we have a Postgres database that, you know, works
ELON MUSK's New Grok 4 Is Here! - We Break it Down
- ▶ 16:47 unnamed speaker Just like, you know, we have a Postgres database that, you know, works, and we're not changing it every year.
Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder
⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
- ▶ 20:14 Zach Lloyd If you go into a, um, a REPL, and here I'm inside a Postgres REPL, you have AI access even within this REPL to do natural language into REPL command translation. 2 times in the scene
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate
- ▶ 1:11:19 Chamath Palihapitiya People go back to Postpress.
Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet
- ▶ 10:19 Shawn Wang It's, I mean, I think it's very underrated, the amount of data connectors you have, like it connects to Postgres. 3 times in the scene
How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)
- ▶ 21:13 Matt Mazzeo It's like, dude, if you ever see a company that is like an open source Postgres, like Firebase alternative, like that's our ticket.
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:06 Jason Lemkin I'll tell you the one to me that was the most interesting, although I'm still trying to fully understand it, right, was that Snowflake bought probably almost pre-revenue startup called Crunchy Data, which is a Postgres 3 times in the scene
How Whop Is Making $1.2+ Billion For Creators · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 33:29 Jack Sharky So we were on a database called Postgres and we moved it to planet scale. 7 times in the scene
From Zero to $42K/Month in 90 Days with AI
- ▶ 13:54 CJ (Sajilah Mazafar) Supabase, all our backend is PostgreSQL Supabase.
DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
- ▶ 24:31 unnamed speaker Like, like Redis and like, you know, Postgres and like whatever your local networking thing is, if you, if you use that kind of like, if you have like a microservices system, good luck.
Rewriting Success: What InfluxDB 3.0 Teaches About Scaling—and Scrapping—Your Core Tech
- ▶ 6:31 Evan Kaplan People have built stuff on Postgres.
- ▶ 14:35 Evan Kaplan Use Mongo, use Postgres, use some, use something else, right?
- ▶ 29:19 Evan Kaplan I can use a Postgres database.
Dashboards Are Dead: Sigma’s BI Revolution for Trillion-Row Data
- ▶ 12:15 Mike Palmer Rob Jason took a spreadsheet working on, and there's a little secret on a Postgres database, uh, to Bob.
- ▶ 19:44 Mike Palmer Or the Postgres warehouse you use to avoid paying, ah, those types of warehouse credits, because maybe the data only refreshes once a day, and you don't want to have that hitting your warehouse, but they're getting one interface.
My Coding Game Makes $1M Per Month
- ▶ 12:15 Lane Wagoner So we use Golang on the backend, Postgres is our database.
Should you use Google’s NEW Firebase Studio for vibe coding (Full Demo)
- ▶ 10:25 unnamed speaker So Firebase probably gives you more control, um, into like the underlying Postgres SQL instance, I would imagine.
Tiny Teams: $6m ARR, 5m users with 4 employees — Sid Bendre, Oleve (Quizard AI/Unstuck AI)
- ▶ 21:14 unnamed speaker So I see some details of the stack, which is Python, FastAPI, Flask, Mongo, and Postgres.
The Rise and Fall of the Vector DB category: Jo Kristian Bergum (ex-Chief Scientist, Vespa)
- ▶ 4:38 Jo Kristian Bergum So, and then you have things like PG vector in Postgres.
- ▶ 10:32 Jo Kristian Bergum And if you're already using some database like Postgres, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:00 unnamed speaker Like, you know, like a Postgres or MongoDB as their transactional and in the end vector store.
The Creators of Model Context Protocol
- ▶ 51:16 unnamed speaker You know, Postgres servers and whatnot, and, and that's all cool and that's good.
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.
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