Eifrem: NASA stated Neo4j will get humanity to Mars two years earlier
Emil Eifrem · Lessons Learned Building a $2 Billion Company from Scratch with Neo4j CEO & Co-Founder Emil Eifrem · Feb 10, 2022 · at 8:08
Emil Eifrem, CEO and co-founder of Neo4j, discusses non-commercial awareness programs and high-profile use cases of Neo4j's graph database technology.
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“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.”
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