Timescale pivoted from an IoT platform into a time-series database
Ajay Kulkarni · 3 Heretical Ideas on the Future of Data // Ajay Kulkarni, TimescaleDB (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) · Sep 17, 2018 · at 15:01
Ajay Kulkarni, co-founder and CEO of Timescale, describes the origin story of TimescaleDB and their pivot away from IoT infrastructure.
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“We have close to a 100,000 devices on our platform, and we need a place to store them, and, you know, and we tried a bunch of databases. It didn't work. Long story short, we just built our own time series database but we're still in the IoT business, and we found that companies we were talking to were more interested in the in the database itself and in the platform which I think says, you know, something about the market for this database, but also something about the market for IoT platforms and, you know, we quickly realized that, that this was the bigger market,”
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