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Eifrem: Neo4j powers 99% of all flight ticket route calculations
“99% of all flight ticket calculations, so which route should I go from point A to point B when I fly from Paris to New York? Is that a direct flight or connecting Heathrow? Like, how do I get there, right? Is done with Neo for J. 99% of our airfare.”
Emil Eifrem Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 20:01 Fireside Chat: Emil Eifrem (Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
MAD Assertion Partly supported
Eifrem: Only 5 modern NoSQL database companies have crossed $100M ARR
“There's five database companies that have crossed a hundred million, right, of the, kind of the, let's call it the NoSQL crowd, or like modern operational database companies. It's, You know, Mongo, and then it's us and Redis. We're on that kind of Mongo path. …”
Emil Eifrem Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 2:20 Fireside Chat: Emil Eifrem (Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
MAD Assertion Supported
Eifrem: Neo4j is frequently 1,000 times faster for connected data queries
“We've optimized every layer in the stack of the database architecture completely around connected data. We're not built on top of a different database or anything. It's a native architecture. And that means that if you want to query along how things are connec…”
Emil Eifrem Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 5:50 Fireside Chat: Emil Eifrem (Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
MAD Prediction Not checkable as stated
Eifrem: Graph databases could become a $20B to $40B market
“Databases is the biggest market in all enterprise software. It'll soon be a hundred billion dollar market. I think graph databases can be a significant chunk of that, 20, 30, forty billion dollar, right?”
Emil Eifrem Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 18:52 Fireside Chat: Emil Eifrem (Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
SAASTR Assertion Supported
Neo4j's $325M Series F is the largest investment round in database history
“We just raised a three hundred and twenty five million dollar series F, which actually is the largest investment in database history”
Emil Eifrem Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 1:06 Lessons Learned Building a $2 Billion Company from Scratch with Neo4j CEO & Co-Founder Emil Eifrem
MAD Assertion Supported
Eifrem: Neo4j's 2021 funding round valued the company over $2B
“We raised this round, you know, last summer, and it's the first time that we went out with some numbers, like the valuation for the first time, which was north of north of two billion. And there's actually the largest round in database history, right?”
Emil Eifrem Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 0:12 Fireside Chat: Emil Eifrem (Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
MAD Assertion Partly supported
Eifrem: GQL standard query language is 98% identical to Cypher
“For the first time ever, In the history of databases, the SQL committee looked at Cypher, looked at graph databases, and then said, you know what? This category is here to last. This is an actual sibling to SQL, and they created the GQL query language, which i…”
Emil Eifrem Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 16:15 Fireside Chat: Emil Eifrem (Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Eifrem: Over 75% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j
“Over 75% of the Fortune 100 are using NeoFj today, so all 20 of the biggest banks in North America, all 20 of them are using NeoFj, seven of the 10 The biggest retailers in the world are using NeoFj for the five biggest, biggest telcos.”
Emil Eifrem Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 19:41 Fireside Chat: Emil Eifrem (Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Emil Eifrem: Over 85% of Neo4j's ARR originates with individual practitioners
“Over 85% of our ARR back then, and still true today, originate with an individual practitioner.”
Emil Eifrem Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 30:19 Fireside Chat: Emil Eifrem (Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
SAASTR Assertion Contradicted
Eifrem: NASA stated Neo4j will get humanity to Mars two years earlier
“Like the mission to Mars where NASA's on the record saying that thanks to Neo for J humanity will get To Mars two years earlier.”
Emil Eifrem Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 8:08 Lessons Learned Building a $2 Billion Company from Scratch with Neo4j CEO & Co-Founder Emil Eifrem
MAD Assertion Supported
Eifrem: Neo4j crossed $100M ARR in 2021
“We crossed a hundred million ARR, you know, in, you know, last year.”
Emil Eifrem Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 2:10 Fireside Chat: Emil Eifrem (Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Eifrem: Physical goods supply chains are frequently 20 to 30 hops deep
“Any company that is producing physical goods is tapping into this global supply chain spanning continent to continent, right? That is frequently 20, 30 hops deep.”
Emil Eifrem Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 10:21 Fireside Chat: Emil Eifrem (Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
MAD Assertion Supported
Eifrem: Cypher is the most popular graph database query language
“Cypher is the most popular graph database query language.”
Emil Eifrem Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 14:49 Fireside Chat: Emil Eifrem (Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
MAD Assertion Supported
Eifrem: Walmart uses Neo4j for real-time customer recommendations
“Walmart is is publicly using us to do real-time recommendations, where you look at the connections between all the customers and the product that, that they've used, and match that to similar similar people, and then do that in real-time, based on purchase his…”
Emil Eifrem Apr 20, 2015 ▶ 10:10 Emil Eifrem, Neo4j // Graphs Are Eating The World (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
MAD Assertion Supported
Eifrem: Graph databases were the fastest-growing database category for two years
“Graph databases, whilst being one of the smaller cousins of the former NoSQL phenomena, right has actually been the fastest growing category inside of all of big data, all of databases for the vast majority of the past two years.”
Emil Eifrem Apr 20, 2015 ▶ 13:08 Emil Eifrem, Neo4j // Graphs Are Eating The World (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Neo4j ran a social network graph query 1,000 times faster than MySQL
“We ran that in MySQL, and that was a 2000 millisecond operation. 2000 millisecond operation. In Neo-for-J, that was a two millisecond operation. So it's a thousand times faster.”
Emil Eifrem Apr 20, 2015 ▶ 20:45 Emil Eifrem, Neo4j // Graphs Are Eating The World (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Neo4j maintained 2ms query latency when scaled to 1,000,000 users
“It's added a million people and 50 friends on average, so, you know, twenty-five million total connections. Grab two people on random, and check to see, and it's a two, still a two millisecond operation in, in Neo-for-J.”
Emil Eifrem Apr 20, 2015 ▶ 20:56 Emil Eifrem, Neo4j // Graphs Are Eating The World (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
LATENT SPACE Assertion Contradicted
Eifrem: Novo Nordisk graph deployment spans over 60 million documents
“Nowhere, nor this is one of the Like public case studies we have here over sixty million documents, you know, billions of notes and relationships use lots of kind of savvy NER and ER.”
Emil Eifrem Apr 18, 2026 ▶ 12:22 ⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
LATENT SPACE Assertion Supported
Eifrem: Initial Model Context Protocol release includes in-memory graph database
“Actually the initial MCP release includes like a tiny little in memory graph database.”
Emil Eifrem Apr 18, 2026 ▶ 24:00 ⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
SAASTR Assertion Not checkable as stated
Neo4j reaches millions of downloads and hundreds of Global 2000 customers
“We in fact were the leader in the category of graph databases, millions of downloads and hundreds of global 2000 customers.”
Emil Eifrem Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 0:41 Lessons Learned Building a $2 Billion Company from Scratch with Neo4j CEO & Co-Founder Emil Eifrem
SAASTR Assertion Not checkable as stated
Eifrem: Modern open-source infrastructure startups reached $50B-$100B in combined market value
“And if you add them all up together, the market value is just massive. It's between 50 to a hundred billion dollars, right? Just out of these generation of infrastructure startups.”
Emil Eifrem Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 5:20 Lessons Learned Building a $2 Billion Company from Scratch with Neo4j CEO & Co-Founder Emil Eifrem
SAASTR Assertion Supported
Eifrem: ISO adoption of GQL broke SQL's multi-decade query language monopoly
“So in databases, there really only been one officially sanctioned blessed query language called sequel until a couple of years ago when the ISO ended up blessing GQ as the formal query language for graph databases.”
Emil Eifrem Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 11:58 Lessons Learned Building a $2 Billion Company from Scratch with Neo4j CEO & Co-Founder Emil Eifrem
SAASTR Assertion Partly supported
Eifrem: Multiple countries and US states used Neo4j for COVID contact tracing
“So a ton of people will have ton of countries, as well as companies, as well as states in the US and things like that. Have used Neo for J to do contact tracing of COVID”
Emil Eifrem Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 38:15 Lessons Learned Building a $2 Billion Company from Scratch with Neo4j CEO & Co-Founder Emil Eifrem
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Eifrem: Neo4j saved Christmas 2012 deliveries for a major European courier
“So we saved Christmas for a major country in Europe in 2012.”
Emil Eifrem Apr 20, 2015 ▶ 10:00 Emil Eifrem, Neo4j // Graphs Are Eating The World (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
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