Dev Ittycheria

Former President & CEO, MongoDB · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dev Ittycheria led MongoDB as President and CEO from 2014 to 2025, taking the database company public in 2017 and overseeing the launch of MongoDB Atlas. Previously, he co-founded and served as CEO of BladeLogic and worked as an investor at Greylock Partners and OpenView Venture Partners.

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6 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Dev argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
MongoDB replaced six C-level executives in the three years post-IPO
“It's a, it's not a secret, but since we've gone public three and a half years ago, we've had six C-level changes, right?”
Dev Ittycheria Apr 27, 2021 ▶ 36:45 Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

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Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

4.5 / 5 directness 4.7 · coherence 4.8 · precision 4.5 · compression 4.1

redirected or did not address 1 of 12 assessed questions (8%). Watch them ▸

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How they sound: speaking style how? →

253 words/min while actually speaking · 17.6 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 7,157 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Dev Ittycheria said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria calls Oracle the most hated tech vendor
“Oracle is the most hated vendor in our tech industry. In the tech industry today”
Dev Ittycheria Apr 27, 2021 ▶ 32:11 Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Insight
Managed cloud services are the optimal open-source monetization strategy
“The best way to monetize open source is open source as a service.”
Dev Ittycheria Apr 27, 2021 ▶ 27:59 Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Supported
MongoDB replaced six C-level executives in the three years post-IPO
“It's a, it's not a secret, but since we've gone public three and a half years ago, we've had six C-level changes, right?”
Dev Ittycheria Apr 27, 2021 ▶ 36:45 Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
MongoDB spent over $700M on R&D, dedicating half to free software
“We've invested over seven hundred million in R&D since we started the company, and more than 50% of that goes with the free product.”
Dev Ittycheria Apr 27, 2021 ▶ 21:40 Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Insight
Open-source companies must target massive markets to offset unmonetized usage
“The most successful open source companies go after big markets because by definition you can't monetize all your usage.”
Dev Ittycheria Apr 27, 2021 ▶ 42:08 Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
MongoDB grew from $30M to $700M run rate under Dev Ittycheria
“The business would then was roughly about 250 people trailing about 30 plus million in revenue, and today we're approaching 4000 people and about seven hundred million dollars in run rate.”
Dev Ittycheria Apr 27, 2021 ▶ 5:05 Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
Dev Ittycheria hired MongoDB's first CRO and CMO on West Coast
“In the early days when I joined actually my first CRO, my first CMO were actually on the West coast because I couldn't find enough depth and experience in New York city.”
Dev Ittycheria Apr 27, 2021 ▶ 8:47 Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Supported
MongoDB Atlas hit $350M run rate with 66 percent annualized growth
“So it went from zero To a three hundred fifty million dollar run rate business, you know, when we announced our last quarter's earnings. And it's growing at about a 66% annualized growth rate.”
Dev Ittycheria Apr 27, 2021 ▶ 13:10 Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Supported
Snowflake S-1 filing entirely omitted the word developer
“If you read Snowflake's S-One, they never mentioned the word developer. That's all about the business analysts, The data scientists, et cetera, to help them kind of get, you know, insight into the data.”
Dev Ittycheria Apr 27, 2021 ▶ 17:34 Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Supported
MongoDB had more software downloads in 2020 than its first decade combined
“Last year we had more downloads of our software than in the first 10 years of the company's history.”
Dev Ittycheria Apr 27, 2021 ▶ 23:21 Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Disclosure
Dev Ittycheria led Datadog's Series B funding round
“And actually, I led the B round at Datadog.”
Dev Ittycheria Apr 27, 2021 ▶ 4:41 Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
MongoDB achieved 99 percent of its growth organically without acquisitions
“99% of our growth has been organic, and the market's very big, so we really focused on organic growth versus, like, trying to grow through acquisition.”
Dev Ittycheria Apr 27, 2021 ▶ 41:32 Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Supported
MongoDB holds just 1 percent of the massive enterprise database market
“Going after the database market is one of the largest markets enterprise software. And so, as I said, we only have one percent share, and I think we're doing quite well.”
Dev Ittycheria Apr 27, 2021 ▶ 42:20 Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)

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Appearances (1)

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Fireside Chat: Dev Ittycheria (President & CEO, MongoDB) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMa Apr 27, 2021 31m
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