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E22 Engineering the atomic cockroach of databases with Cockroach Labs co-founder Spencer Kimball

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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Spencer Kimball, co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs about building a database unicorn backed by some of Silicon Valley's top venture firms, incl. Benchmark, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures. After recording the episode, Cockroach Labs raised $160m on a $2bn valuation in January 2021, reflecting the explosive growth and product innovation of 2020.

00:00​ Intro

00:56 Cockroach Labs elevator pitch

04:29 Getting the band together

09:24​ Exit to Square and paddling back into the startup surf

11:44​ First version of CockroachDB

14:17​ Open core model

20:43​ Relicensing Cockroach DB

25:39​ Open source as top of the funnel tool

30:25 Series A from Benchmark and Sequoia Capital

35:15 Series A extension from Index

37:01 Late state startup life at Series D

39:44 CockroachDB technology

48:11 Synchronous replication and CockroachDB

53:50 CAP Theorem and CockroachDB

58:10 CockroachDB and Kubernetes

1:01:10 Spencer's workout regime

  continue reading

52 episodes

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Manage episode 289904718 series 2601023
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In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Spencer Kimball, co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs about building a database unicorn backed by some of Silicon Valley's top venture firms, incl. Benchmark, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures. After recording the episode, Cockroach Labs raised $160m on a $2bn valuation in January 2021, reflecting the explosive growth and product innovation of 2020.

00:00​ Intro

00:56 Cockroach Labs elevator pitch

04:29 Getting the band together

09:24​ Exit to Square and paddling back into the startup surf

11:44​ First version of CockroachDB

14:17​ Open core model

20:43​ Relicensing Cockroach DB

25:39​ Open source as top of the funnel tool

30:25 Series A from Benchmark and Sequoia Capital

35:15 Series A extension from Index

37:01 Late state startup life at Series D

39:44 CockroachDB technology

48:11 Synchronous replication and CockroachDB

53:50 CAP Theorem and CockroachDB

58:10 CockroachDB and Kubernetes

1:01:10 Spencer's workout regime

  continue reading

52 episodes

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