Beyond Coding
Why an Ex-Googler Bet Everything on an Open-Source Database
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Jordan Tigani helped create Google BigQuery, then got fired as Chief Product Officer on a Friday morning. He planned to hack on DuckDB to learn Rust. Investors offered to fund it before he'd decided to start a company. That company became MotherDuck
In this episode, we cover:
The DuckDB Labs partnership: why MotherDuck gave the open-source creators a co-founder share instead of going…