Paul Copplestone
10 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 25, 2026 by Paul Copplestone · across every show →
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Jun 25, 2026 positive
Copplestone: Supabase team was engineered specifically to be YC-friendly
“I thought at the time, again, to de-risk things, I thought, I'm going to build a, the most Y Combinator friendly team and apply for YC and that will help from a DevTool point of view. I think that's the pitch that actually convinced him he really wanted to go …”
Jun 25, 2026 neutral
Copplestone: Supabase rejects bespoke enterprise feature requests
“Now, if an enterprise comes in and they say something that is also going to benefit maybe a thousand customers, then we'll add it. But if they say something that's bespoke to them, Then, of course, we'll just end up saying no because we really want to make sur…”
Jun 25, 2026 neutral
Copplestone: Supabase only hired for 'hair on fire' needs until 150 employees
“We had this idea that we'd only hire when we had a hair on fire problem for the first probably four or five years, and so we got to maybe 200 people with that mentality, or a 150 people with that mentality, and then we quickly had to change. Like halfway throu…”
Jun 25, 2026 neutral
Jun 25, 2026 positive
Copplestone: Support outreach boosts Supabase account usage growth to 125% QoQ
“And what we do is we measure those who don't respond, how much did their the usage growth and actually we know like quarter over quarter, it's 25% versus those who have chatted to a success person and that's a 125%. So we can see the incremental uplift from th…”
Jun 25, 2026 neutral
Jun 25, 2026 positive
Jun 25, 2026 positive
Copplestone: Supabase compensates sales reps strictly on incremental usage uplift
“Yeah, on the incremental uplift only, which I think is the big difference from what was traditionally done. You know, on a PLG motion, you could easily say, ah, get a salesperson and so on, like, reach out to anyone and then you pay them on, on the revenue gen…”
Jun 25, 2026 positive
Jun 25, 2026
Copplestone: Startups should never compromise between high agency and high performance
“If you can keep the best people it was at YC yesterday and so on was saying, should I take someone who's high agency or should I take someone who's high performance? And like, it's very clear to me. It's both. Like, you just don't compromise on, on any of thos…”