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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
Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents
- ▶ 27:25 Zeno Rocha Who can spin up a new Postgres database faster?
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.
Browserbase: Browser Infrastructure For Your AI Agents
- ▶ 18:22 unnamed speaker Serverless Postgres.
Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
- ▶ 7:19 Samuel Colvin It's probably 80%, and so, everyone needs that stuff, and there's so much yet to be figured out, so much, like, space to do things better in the ecosystem in a way that, like, to go and implement a database that's better than Postgres is…
- ▶ 43:56 Samuel Colvin We started building our database with ClickHouse, moved off ClickHouse onto Timescale, which is a Postgres extension to do analytical databases. 3 times in the scene
Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
- ▶ 43:47 Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) I think because of who they, if I recall, they like purchased a solution that was based on Postgres and then just moved it to the cloud.
- ▶ 47:25 Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) So if you're using Postgres or something and you're, you know, cause you're, uh, you've got some application layer.
No Priors Ep. 96 | With Modal CEO and Founder Erik Bernhardsson
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.
How to use AI to build your SaaS startup (Lovable, Supabase)
Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 14:58 Amjad Masad So here it's created a Postgres database.
Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
How I Built It: $37K/Month Notion App
- ▶ 13:49 Julian Nahum The database is PostgreSQL.
The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
- ▶ 28:24 Jordan Tigani It can deliver value in that, you know, you can join, you know, data from your Postgres server against data that's living in the cloud.
- ▶ 33:49 Jordan Tigani Yeah, he created Postgres and Ingress, um,
Vercel's VP of Product on how to use v0 to build your own ideas (Step-by-Step Guide)
- ▶ 21:22 Lee Robinson And sometimes if I haven't got to that point yet, I said, hey, help me take this Postgres schema that I have and give me the ORM for it.
Zuck Just Killed the Apple Vision Pro (ep2)
- ▶ 47:30 John Coogan Like, what, what, why, why go with, uh, you know, Postgres as opposed to Oracle database?
Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- ▶ 5:18 Ankur Goyal He's built the world's best free tier and is building like hyper inexpensive Postgres. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:47:01 Ankur Goyal My conclusion is that this is a very real problem for a very small number of companies, and that is why Datadog, Splunk, Honeycomb, et cetera, et cetera, built their own database technology, which is, in some ways, it's sad because all of…
Replit CEO Builds an App with 100% AI in 20 Min: Future of Coding?
- ▶ 24:12 Amjad Masad So we have Postgres databases. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:38 Amjad Masad Like we built the initial prototype, we moved to Postgres.
Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
- ▶ 17:53 Tobie Morgan Hitchcock It can run as a single node, like Postgres.
- ▶ 21:06 Tobie Morgan Hitchcock So in Postgres or relational database, something like MySQL, you traditionally have an ID field which is an integer.
- ▶ 42:43 Matt Turck Pick on them necessarily, but it's like this whole group of, um, sort of Postgres based, uh, modern databases, um, that, uh, you know, some of which are doing great things with a great traction. 2 times in the scene
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…
AI at Datadog: Monitoring machines in the age of LLMs | Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog
- ▶ 56:05 Olivier Pomel Uh, database-wise, you know, we mostly built on, I mean, we still use, in some areas, like some standard databases, like Postgres and things like that.
Turbocharging Postgres for Time Series & Vectors — Timescale CTO Mike Freedman | Data Driven NYC
- ▶ 0:07 Mike Freedman So today I want to talk about timescale and what I'm going to refer to as the once and future database platform, Postgres.
- ▶ 1:52 Mike Freedman Uh, even though it has its roots back in the 19 eighties, Postgres is now one of the most popular databases for developers, and it's not a niche database, good for only one thing, but a full database platform, and we'll see why in a minute. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:42 Mike Freedman Today, these companies trust timescale to build their powerful applications with Postgres. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:40 Mike Freedman We extended Postgres in order to help now developers build powerful AI applications. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:06 Mike Freedman This is PGAI running in Postgres. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:31 Mike Freedman You might think of Postgres as an OLTP database, but we first proved that it could be powerful for time series and analytics, and right now we're showing it could power AI and vectors as well, all without a new architecture. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:12 Matt Turck Building, um, great database companies on, on top of Postgres. 8 times in the scene
How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- ▶ 4:20 Michelle Pokrass It was a Postgres shop, and you had all of the followers in Postgres, and you needed to, like, iterate over the followers and, like, figure out, is this a good notification to send? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:13 Alessio Fanelli What was the helping scaling when you're scaling non-GPU workloads versus like Postgres bouncers and things like that? 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 78 | With AWS CEO Matt Garman
- ▶ 22:07 Matt Garman And so even where we have something like Aurora, which is our kind of managed database, it is a hundred percent Postgres compatible. 2 times in the scene
How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
- ▶ 2:30 Aaron Katz Row oriented like Postgres or a transactional database.
- ▶ 7:38 Aaron Katz And those types of use cases, companies originally selected technologies like Postgres, for example, for that type of use case, and then realize that as these data volumes exploded, especially with the emergence of gen AI, that they simply…
- ▶ 25:30 Aaron Katz Um, we're seeing companies that chose a relational or transactional database, like Postgres.
Reddit hit 1M users in 1 year. The key was listening to users—& not doing what they said. | Reddi... · PMF Show
- ▶ 21:56 Chris Slowe I remember, I remember very clearly, like, being out to dinner, and, like, Steve's phone went off, and we got, we got back, we had, like, run back to the apartment, which doubled as the office, hopped on, and that was the first time we… 3 times in the scene
High Agency Pydantic over VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
- ▶ 9:47 Dennis Pilarinos And I was like, in the same way it's a Postgres dev tool or a Kotlin dev tool, who cares what technology we're using?
No Priors Ep. 52 | With Pinecone CEO Edo Liberty
The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
- ▶ 23:05 unnamed speaker Um, he mentioned they just use PostgreSQL's vector.
The Four Wars of the AI Stack - Dec 2023 Recap
The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- ▶ 1:03:11 Steve Yegge We use Postgres. 3 times in the scene
RAG is a hack - with Jerry Liu of LlamaIndex
- ▶ 1:03:40 Shawn Wang So your current favorite is just put it into Postgres. 2 times in the scene
How We Scaled Founderpath to Process 200 Million Rows of Financial Data Per Day
- ▶ 8:09 Charlie Martin Postgres.
- ▶ 19:20 Charlie Martin Uh, so we use Postgres. 4 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 23 | With Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman
- ▶ 17:20 Frank Slootman So, you know, building a data base or a data platform, whatever you want to call it for cloud computing was very different than just sort of taking the Postgres SQL kernel
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.
- ▶ 22:36 Jeff Huber Um, you know, Postgres is not doing analytics over your Postgres data. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:47 Jeff Huber Um, but, uh, I think that idea of turning this, like, static database into something that knows what it knows and knows what it doesn't know, and allowing it to be alive and then allowing it to almost learn in a sense, um, is really…
Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator
Episode 652 | Mixing No-code with Code, Developer Superpowers, $5...
- ▶ 35:53 Rob Walling You know, I mean, obviously there's a little bit, you know, Postgres adds a feature where you can group by and this and that.
The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- ▶ 50:48 Amjad Masad Postgres support.
How to foster innovation and big thinking | Eeke de Milliano (Retool, Stripe)
- ▶ 33:30 Eeke de Milliano So we built essentially like we spin up a Postgres database for you and you can just access it via a really nice UI and manage it directly in Retool.
Episode 638 | How to Generate Startup Ideas (Plus 8 Ideas You Can...
- ▶ 32:25 Justin Vincent So examples, let's say you have to migrate one petabyte database from Postgres to a different structure, no SQL database, rather than writing scripts and spinning up 3 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.
- ▶ 45:32 Spencer Kimball We also, you know, Cockroach looks like Postgres, and Postgres, of course, is, is a very widely adopted database, and many databases that aren't Postgres look like Postgres.
Building better roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)
- ▶ 2:29 Lenny Rachitsky With Formsort sort,, anyone can build highly customizable forms, implement complex logic, and send data to destinations like Postgres, BigQuery, and Segment.
A Novel Approach to Data Quality for the Modern Data Stack | Datafold’s Gleb Mezhanskiy
- ▶ 13:57 Gleb Mezhanskiy For example, Postgres or MongoDB to like a warehouse. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:24 Gleb Mezhanskiy Um, in this, like, you do have to connect it to specific data sources like a warehouse, for example, let's say if you're using Snowflake and Databricks and Postgres, you would need to connect it just like a BI tool to all of these, but in…
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:07:55 Ben Gilbert So I can't remember if it actually launched with Postgres, but assume you're normally self hosting Postgres on your server, or you have a separate database server that you're used to running that runs Postgres.
- ▶ 1:08:06 Ben Gilbert Well, now you use RDS and it runs Postgres and all your queries work and you can treat it like it's your own database server.
Building Real-Time Data Pipelines | Estuary's Johnny Graettinger
- ▶ 0:57 Johnny Graettinger Uh, I've got a, uh, Cloud SQL, a Postgres box running in, uh, Google Cloud Platform.
- ▶ 3:56 Johnny Graettinger So we have a, um, a running capture that my colleague Will set up like a bunch of days ago that's basically just capturing a bunch of tables from this Postgres database into, uh, flow collections.
- ▶ 5:32 Johnny Graettinger Okay, so what we are looking at right now, um, is a live view of essentially a Postgres table that is being live synchronized into this Google Sheet.
- ▶ 9:41 Johnny Graettinger So that's essentially what I have put together just in terms of like demo content to show, uh, kind of what we've shown with the sheet is we're able to like directly synchronize from our Postgres warehouse into the sheet.
- ▶ 13:23 Johnny Graettinger Um, some of the first ones we built were sort of analytics warehouses, like being able to, to maintain views in Snowflake or, uh, BigQuery or Postgres itself. 2 times in the scene
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 28:38 Balaji Srinivasan Anybody who's listening to this, who's written code that takes from Postgres and templates, a webpage and make some graphics.
Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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)
- ▶ 31:11 Dev Ittycheria They want to standardize and say a modern standard like MongoDB, maybe a relational standard like Postgres, and then maybe there's some corner cases where they use something esoteric.
Fireside Chat: Jack Hanlon (VP Data, Reddit) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 9:36 Jack Hanlon From the top view, I'd say we're, we're AWS prod, um, with originally a lot of Postgres, um,
Episode 530 | Making Development Decisions, Regrets about Selling, and More Listener
- ▶ 9:39 Rob Walling Like if, if I were to build a SaaS app, again, God forbid that ever happens, but if I, I'm only joking, but I would need someone to convince me pretty hard to not use either Ruby on Rails over Postgres or Python Django.
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.
Episode 511 | Raising Prices & Re-writing Your Codebase
- ▶ 26:31 Rob Walling Then, then that would get translated into a SQL query that would run against the, the Postgres database.
Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 9:09 Nate Stewart From the point of view of the application developer, it looks like they're talking to a single Postgres database, but it just so happens to be elastically scalable.
- ▶ 14:13 Nate Stewart If you, you know, Amazon Aurora is really Amazon Aurora Postgres or Amazon Aurora MySQL. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:10 Nate Stewart Um, the other thing that we're looking at specifically focusing on time to value is, uh, Postgres compatibility. 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.
Episode 501 | A Bluetick Update from Mike #Taber
- ▶ 34:34 Rob Walling You have this Postgres database with 30,000 queries per second running on it. 2 times in the scene
1758 Funnel Analysis: Online Events Platform $0 to $1.8m in Revenue In 2 Months
- ▶ 21:43 Johnny Boufarhat Uh, we're built on, at the moment, Ruby on Rails, uh, React, um, Postgres, Amazon, uh, what you'd pretty much expect from, uh, a startup.
What's Next for Open-Source Time Series Data? // Paul Dix, Influx Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Ultra-Resilient SQL for Global Business // Spencer Kimball, Cockroach (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 22:04 Spencer Kimball It looks like Postgres. 5 times in the scene
3 Heretical Ideas on the Future of Data // Ajay Kulkarni, TimescaleDB (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 17:40 Ajay Kulkarni Uh, you know, the, the, the way we handle replication, we're built on top of Postgres, which is a very popular open source relational database, and we support replication through standard Postgres streaming replication. 2 times in the scene
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…
20VC: How Investors Can Get Into The Best Deals & Why Founders First Point Of Contact Should Be With The Investment Decision-Maker with Spencer Kimball, Founder & CEO @ Cockroach Labs
- ▶ 2:56 Spencer Kimball So I did a .com startup, and we were sharding Postgres and sharding Oracle, and so that was a sort of the first instance where I realized that, you know, these very venerable databases that did exist, both the open source and the…
Drug Discovery as a Data Problem // Sajith Wickramasekara, Benchling (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 9:24 Sajith Wickramasekara Postgres, 20 years old.
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
- ▶ 25:58 unnamed speaker 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.
Making On-Demand Delivery Profitable // Jeremy Stanley, Instacart (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 17:10 Jeremy Stanley Yeah, so all of our production data is in Postgres, and we will read from the secondaries in AWS. 2 times in the scene
The Uber Big Data Story // Praveen Murugesan, Uber (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 3:20 Praveen Murugesan So, here's how Uber's infrastructure kind of started when I came into Uber, and for the scale at which we are running at that point, this was something that actually worked, so it wasn't, I wouldn't say it was like a bad architecture, so…
- ▶ 5:49 Praveen Murugesan So we built, like, a Hadoop data lake, which really, ah, the fundamental difference between what we built from Hadoop, ah, versus, like, Vertica was, like, we left all the original data in the source data, data set, databases itself, like,…
The Solitude of the Data Team Manager // Florian Douetteau, Dataiku (Hosted by FirstMark)
- ▶ 3:56 Florian Douetteau You might want to do everything in Spark, but you would find out that maybe the geo-analytics team in the company is really into Postgres and PostGIS, and want to do everything in Postgres and PostGIS. 2 times in the scene
A Fireside Chat With MongoDB CTO Eliot Horowitz (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 11:12 Eliot Horowitz Connectivity to tools like Tableau and sort of all the other sort of BI tools became very, became more and more important, so in December we released a BI connector that speaks sort of completely native SQL, so like you, it actually…