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OpenAI’s Compute Chief: We Can’t Build Fast Enough | Sachin Katti
- ▶ 29:48 Matt Turck Um, and then, uh, it seems that Target has evolved, so from, uh, the, what was going to be a joint venture with Oracle and, uh, SoftBank, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:36 Sachin Katti Uh, we obviously have a big partnership with Oracle. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:43 Sachin Katti So Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Oracle, uh, we are off the offtake.
The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
- ▶ 2:16 Stephen Balaban And there's a reason why the biggest companies in the world, these multi-trillion dollar market cap businesses, whether it's Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle,
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
- ▶ 27:11 Benedict Evans And I don't know, theoretically, you could have done that in Oracle, but
- ▶ 37:16 Benedict Evans Look at the new clouds or look at Oracle and say, you know, leverage doesn't tend to end well, but you know, Hey, I haven't been an equity analyst for 20 years.
- ▶ 38:54 Matt Turck Going back to big tech, perhaps with Oracle that you just 3 times in the scene
Dylan Patel: NVIDIA's New Moat & Why China is "Semiconductor Pilled”
- ▶ 25:18 Dylan Patel ByteDance rents, rents tons of chips from Oracle and Google and, and, you know, many other cloud companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:08 Matt Turck It's sort of, uh, this, uh, plus, uh, the whole, like, Oracle commitment. 4 times in the scene
Inside the Paper That Changed AI Forever - Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on 2025 Agents
- ▶ 0:38 Matt Turck Fast forward to 2025 and Aiden is now steering cohere, a 500 person enterprise AI company that has raised over one billion dollars in venture capital and powers Oracle, Notion, and many enterprise customers with a full stack multilingual…
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on What Really Matters Now
- ▶ 9:35 Benedict Evans So very crudely, like, do you use the LLM to go talk to Oracle and get the right answer? 3 times in the scene
Rewriting Success: What InfluxDB 3.0 Teaches About Scaling—and Scrapping—Your Core Tech
- ▶ 11:28 Evan Kaplan There were Oracle and IBM DB two, and then there were some Formix and Sybase and these side cases, but, but you know, if you ran any sort of enterprise, you had Oracle or IBM DB two. 2 times in the scene
Glean’s Breakthrough: CEO Arvind Jain on Scaling AI Agents & Search
- ▶ 20:10 Matt Turck There was an Deca that was, uh, bought by, um, Oracle for a billion, uh, famously autonomy, uh, which was acquired by the HP for, for ten billion.
Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
- ▶ 37:10 Sridhar Ramaswamy We were all about big data and analytics back then, built on top of systems like Oracle and, uh, and DB two.
- ▶ 55:29 Sridhar Ramaswamy We have written tools to make it easier to migrate data from a source system, whether it's SQL Server or Oracle.
Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
- ▶ 4:49 Justin Borgman You'd think of Oracle or MongoDB as being two very prominent examples on that side of the house.
Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
- ▶ 4:08 Erik Bernhardsson Oracle, I should, you know, shout out to Oracle. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:14 Erik Bernhardsson We use AWS, we use GCP, we use Oracle.
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.
AI at ZoomInfo: Superpowering GTM teams | Ali Dasdan, CTO, ZoomInfo
- ▶ 36:43 Ali Dasdan So for that one, we can actually use our own, right, and plus we all, we are actually renting the GPUs in Oracle Cloud, actually.
- ▶ 36:51 Matt Turck So your LLAMA runs on Oracle GPU?
- ▶ 38:51 Ali Dasdan So there's, you know, we are thinking like how much of that layer we should be creating ourselves and how much we can actually rely on what Google or AWS or Oracle will be providing as a layer for us.
AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
- ▶ 5:39 Tomasz Tunguz And yes, there's programming associated with it, but Oracle databases have stored procedures.
- ▶ 26:18 Tomasz Tunguz I was on a panel recently where we were talking about large language models and the parallels to search engines where you may not necessarily want to be the first search engine because the underlying information retrieval architecture…
Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? With Benedict Evans
- ▶ 2:29 Benedict Evans You know, you unbundle the incumbent, you change the model, you peel something out of Salesforce or Oracle or Excel, you work out your go to market.
- ▶ 9:55 Benedict Evans Um, and so the kind of the point is like, yes, theoretically you could run the entire world on Gmail, Excel, and Oracle, but in practice we don't. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:54 Benedict Evans So there will be generative AI capabilities inside stuff from Google and Microsoft and Oracle. 2 times in the scene
Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
- ▶ 11:52 Tristan Handy Like, I don't believe that we're going back to Oracle and Microsoft in 2000 and everybody's just going to buy all their stuff from one vendor.
Vector databases and the $8 trillion open source market | Bob van Luijt, CEO of Weaviate
- ▶ 0:15 Bob van Luijt I mean, you can, you can store that in an old Oracle database.
- ▶ 20:42 Bob van Luijt I mean, you can, you can store that in an old Oracle database, right?
Bootstrapping a Decacorn on $15k with Celonis CEO Alex Rinke
- ▶ 17:51 Alex Rinke That is also completely independent from the source system, so you could have Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, the Process Intelligence Graph, or we call it the PIC, you know, now, now we have like a lot of PICs in my office, like not real PICs,…
Secure, Private, Powerful: Dust’s Vision for Enterprise AI Agents | Stanislas Polu
- ▶ 2:55 Stanislas Polu I went to Oracle for nine months, which was kind of weird. 2 times in the scene
Data Visibility & Control | BigID Co-Founder & CEO Dimitri Sirota
- ▶ 2:43 Dimitri Sirota It could be a SQL server from Oracle or Microsoft.
A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival | Cockroach CEO & Co-Founder, Spencer Kimball
- ▶ 1:46 Spencer Kimball For those of you that don't know what that is, think Oracle's flagship database.
- ▶ 3:20 Matt Turck Do you want to double click on that history from the relational database of yesteryear or, you know, Oracle, not to pick on them, to document databases, to New SQL? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:13 Spencer Kimball Much bigger than one of those traditional relational databases I mentioned, like Oracle, for example,
- ▶ 40:23 Spencer Kimball I mean, certainly if something goes wrong with Oracle, you don't have the, the chief Oracle database engineer, like, working day and night on your problem. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:16 Spencer Kimball You know, with Oracle and DB two, you're actually potentially running on hardware that, you know, far exceeds 2 times in the scene
Leveraging People Data at Scale | ADP Chief Data Officer, Jack Berkowitz
- ▶ 9:52 Jack Berkowitz I started and, and, you know, I founded companies and everything else, and I ended up at Oracle, and then I ended up here.
- ▶ 23:40 Jack Berkowitz I need to connect to Oracle.
Separating Data Hype From Substance | Fireside Chat with Mode Co-Founder Benn Stancil
- ▶ 7:15 Benn Stancil It's also, one of the questions I have when people ask, like, what's the modern data stack is, Oracle released a new cloud data warehouse. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:48 Benn Stancil Oracle's gone.
- ▶ 45:20 Benn Stancil There will always be someone who's like, gonna disrupt Snowflake in the same way Oracle didn't win forever, and Microsoft didn't win forever, but that becomes a much harder sell, and probably what you end up chasing is like, where are the…
Fireside Chat: Emil Eifrem (Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 22:53 Emil Eifrem It's Oracle.
Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 19:28 Dev Ittycheria I mean, Oracle was founded in 1977. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:36 Dev Ittycheria You know, they've had like Oracle Rack, SiteCard, you know, and other ways to try and replicate data.
- ▶ 30:25 Dev Ittycheria You know, we coexist with Oracle, we coexist with Microsoft, we coexist with other players, right? 5 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Dave Burgess (Head of Data Engineering, Pinterest) w/ Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 10:26 Dave Burgess We actually use an Oracle for that, where it's a small, small amount of data.
Fireside Chat: Arjun Narayan (Founder & CEO, Materialize) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 18:00 Arjun Narayan So materialized views have been present in databases, you know, as old as Oracle or SQL Server, um, but they've been very limited in the kinds of queries you could write and the kinds of materialized views we could write.
- ▶ 23:50 Matt Turck And I see a couple of questions, which I think you covered, uh, during the discussion, uh, like is materialized a, a relational model like Oracle, no SQL like Mongo.
Fireside Chat: Jack Hanlon (VP Data, Reddit) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 0:58 Jack Hanlon And when I graduated college, I was sort of thinking of software engineering in some ways is like guys in khakis working at Oracle.
Fireside Chat: Ashley Kramer (CMO & CPO, Sisense) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 0:43 Ashley Kramer But if we go back and start at the beginning, um, yes, I was an engineer, um, in my early days at NASA, Oracle, 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: David Cancel (Founder & CEO, Drift) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 27:31 David Cancel And again, we play with Marketo and Eloqua and all those systems you use today.
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.
Fireside Chat: Alex Rinke (Founder & CEO, Celonis) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 17:30 Alex Rinke So one there's the transactional systems, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, et cetera, and you typically connect to either to the database or through an API, right? 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 1:51 Nate Stewart Um, that was pre revenue pre cockroach to be one that, oh, and I've spent the last three years trying to figure out what's the right shape of cockroach to make it that post that post Oracle, uh, database.
Fireside Chat with Olivier Pomel (Founder & CEO of Datadog) and Matt Turck (Partner at FirstMark)
- ▶ 4:42 Olivier Pomel Um, the, uh, Datadogs were our production databases, and Datadogs-seventeen was the horrible, horrible Oracle database that, you know, everybody lived in fear of.
Data Science Is A Literacy, Not A Job // Peter Wang, Anaconda (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 4:38 Peter Wang You need, you know, 20 years of Python experience, plus five years of GPU deep learning experience, plus it'd be awesome if you could write these, like, Oracle SQL queries and optimize them, and no one can hire these people.
Fireside Chat: Sarah Guo, General Partner at Greylock (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
What's Next for Open-Source Time Series Data? // Paul Dix, Influx Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Apache Druid & An Introduction to Data Rivers // FJ Yang, Imply (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
The Case for Hiring More Analysts // Benn Stancil, Mode (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 19:43 Benn Stancil Um, which tools are they using if they're investing in other data tools, if they're investing in, in data warehouses like Redshift or Snowflake or, or even stuff like Oracle or Vertica.
Optionality in Data Architecture // Justin Borgman, Starburst Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 16:17 Justin Borgman Uh, by contrast, we're focused on also performance, but things like security and, and, you know, role-based access control was something we added last year, uh, for example, or, um, uh, you know, connect connectors to various data sources,… 3 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Nick Rockwell, CTO of The New York Times (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 26:36 unnamed speaker Do you worry about whether you're making the oracle decision all over again?
Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 8:07 Matt Turck Uh, created, but you have, so the databases, this is what I'm talking about, the databases, um, on one side as a source, and then you have the processing layer, uh, that used to be Teradata Oracle IBM, which is now Spark, Snowflake,… 3 times in the scene
Ultra-Resilient SQL for Global Business // Spencer Kimball, Cockroach (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 1:08 Spencer Kimball We're just kind of trying that out at the moment, um, to distinguish it from the kind of resilience that people would be familiar with if they've used Oracle Golden Gate, which is asynchronous.
- ▶ 4:47 Spencer Kimball This is a very hard thing to configure, um, correctly and successfully in production with Golden Gate, but some, some folks have done it.
3 Heretical Ideas on the Future of Data // Ajay Kulkarni, TimescaleDB (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 1:57 Ajay Kulkarni Uh, so the, the modern database as we know it started, you know, really back in the 19 seventies with the creation of the first relational database at, at IBM called System R, and it was then commercialized into the first, you know,…
- ▶ 7:10 Ajay Kulkarni And just how, you know, the, the, the first wave led to the emergence of, you know, foundational technologies in companies like Oracle, and the second wave lead to, you know, led to another set of foundation
Fireside Chat with Bob Muglia, CEO at Snowflake (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 5:04 Matt Turck Then Oracle grew to one billion in its first decade, but ended its second decade with sixteen billion.
- ▶ 16:40 Bob Muglia Netiza, Teradata, Oracle, Vertica, Greenplum, SQL Server.
AI and a Different Type of Competitive Advantage // Omar Tawakol, Voicera (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 0:48 Omar Tawakol Um, so first, uh, if you think about it, I built a company before, and, um, you know, it, it, it did pretty well, and then we went out and acquired all these companies, uh, and built the Oracle Data Cloud, and there's something interesting…
- ▶ 9:13 Omar Tawakol We built the, the data cloud, and separate of the DMP platform, uh, by the time, you know, we went into the Oracle data cloud and continued to grow the, the business and make acquisitions, it was a five hundred million dollar business.
Big Data as a Service // Prat Moghe, Cazena (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 4:38 Prat Moghe In the old days, you had SQL, and it was Teradata, Oracle, IBM, um, you know, SAP, Microsoft, a bunch of these.
- ▶ 15:52 Prat Moghe So whenever you have data on prem, maybe it's an Oracle database, maybe it's some ETL tool, um, and, and that would point to that gateway, and the gateway would suck the data, encrypt it, and move it into this, into the right environment.
Venture Capital Investor Panel: Investing in Big Data (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 2:34 Jake Flomenberg Aspire to be the next Oracle, the, the next, you know, decabillion dollar company in the enterprise space, what we need is the apps on top, right?
A Kafka-Powered Real-Time Streaming Platform // Neha Narkhede, Confluent [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 11:59 Neha Narkhede Since we released it only a couple of months ago, there are dozens of connectors that exist, so you can just plug two connectors and be able to ETL data from an Oracle database into Hidup using Kafka Connect.
A Fireside Chat With MongoDB CTO Eliot Horowitz (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 9:23 Eliot Horowitz And Wired Tiger was founded by the founders of Berkeley DB, and for those in the tech space, you know, Berkeley DB is sort of one of the, you know, it's been around since, I think, 89, and sort of the, one of the core and storage engines… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:51 Eliot Horowitz You know, if you look at Oracle, you can find Oracle's revenue, database revenue, and Microsoft database revenue, and IBM's database revenue. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:38 Eliot Horowitz Um, so they do this a lot, so for those who don't know, so for example, Amazon has a product called RDS, which is Relational Database Service, and in that they have managed MySQL, managed MariaDB, managed Postgres, even managed Oracle and…
A Recipe-Based Approach to Parsing // Hicham Oudghiri, Enigma (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 5:46 Hicham Oudghiri You know, part of the world got upgraded to SAP, but we're the boring part of the Fortune 500, because we're not performing as well, so we still have this Oracle thing.
10 Commandments for BI in Big Data, Shant Hovsepian, Arcadia Data (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 4:38 Shant Hovsepian In regard to Oracle, I'm going to paraphrase, but he said, Oracle gives you a min-max median on tabular data, and it's a hundred billion dollar industry. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:14 Shant Hovsepian You wouldn't stick five petabytes of data in your Oracle system because it would just cost you so much money, but you can sort of put it in a big data system. 2 times in the scene
B2B Big Data Challenges, Nick Mehta, Gainsight (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 4:21 Nick Mehta The basic idea that, oh, you'll start out, and your company will get started, and they'll say, great, we're, we're using Salesforce, NetSuite, Oracle, something like that.
- ▶ 21:09 Nick Mehta Like, um, it's, I'd say, very interesting versus, like, the old world where you're like, we're an Oracle shop, we're a .NET shop.
A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 10:46 M.C. Srivas And that was a big challenge because everybody was using Oracle. 2 times in the scene
The Acceleration of Innovation in Big Data w/ Stefan Groschupf, Datameer
- ▶ 3:29 Stefan Groschupf Some of the Oracle, Teradata, DB-II, even mainframe architecture that was put in there lives longer than the 10 years to when we have faster chips in our brain.
- ▶ 3:29 Stefan Groschupf Some of the Oracle, Teradata, DB-II, even mainframe architecture that was put in there lives longer than the 10 years to when we have faster chips in our brain.
- ▶ 24:12 Stefan Groschupf Um, if, if, if they just have, um, more of the same data, it is just way, way cheaper to scale out your NetEase or Oracle, um, Greenplum, pick your favorite, right?
Spencer Kimball, Cockroach Labs // A New Kind of Database (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 1:20 Spencer Kimball Where the, you know, traditional RDBMS systems, like Oracle being really the 800 pound gorilla there these days, um, but they were standardized with, you know, SQL, structured query language on top of them, and that gave them wide…
Bob Muglia, Snowflake // Navigating The Cloud (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 3:58 Bob Muglia An example of this would be running Oracle or MySQL,
Chris Wiggins, NY Times // Data Science at The New York Times (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 19:00 Chris Wiggins There's a lot of data tables coming from heterogeneous sources, so we have a lot of PII that is sort of Oracle-style vendor things, and it's safe, and then there's web logs, which are less about PII, and that's put on S-III.
Mike Olson, Cloudera // The Cloudera Story (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 3:06 Mike Olson Uh, we sold the company to Oracle in 2006, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:03 Mike Olson So we've got a long way to go before this platform is mature in the way that, say, Teradata or Oracle is, but hey, you know, I like the direction that the wind is blowing, uh, and the ground is pretty smooth. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:53 Mike Olson You can think of us in the way that you think of Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, IBM DB II.
- ▶ 21:18 Matt Turck Is the end goal to be the, the new Oracle? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:12 Mike Olson If you sort of add up all of the relational database spending that happens, call it thirty billion dollars a year, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, in that order, and then, you know, there's a bunch of other players that kind of don't matter, right?
Dennis Mortensen and Marcos Jimenez, x.ai // Your AI-powered Virtual Assistant
- ▶ 22:33 Dennis Mortensen So it might just be John at Oracle for you, uh, and that's all good and fine with us.
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