Apple acquired Customer.io's database vendor and refused to renew their support contract
Colin Nederkoorn · Customer.io Just Hit $70m Revenue - 9 mistakes to avoid with CEO Colin Nederkoorn · Oct 8, 2024 · at 9:59
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Colin Nederkoorn is the CEO of Customer.io. He is recounting early infrastructure choices and why adopting a closed-source distributed database almost destroyed the business.
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“That this database company ended up getting acquired by Apple. They didn't renew our service contract, and so we encountered this issue where we were trying to scale up, and the entire cluster fell over, and we couldn't, you know, it was really hard to get support, because they, the company had been acquired”
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