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Database School20 years of hacking Postgres with Heikki Linnakangas (cofounder of Neon)In this episode of Database School, I talk with Heikki Linnakangas, co-founder of Neon and longtime PostgreSQL hacker, to talk about 20+ years in the Postgres community, the architecture behind Neon, and the future of multi-threaded Postgres. From paternity leave patches to branching production databases, we cover a lot of ground in this deep-dive conversation. Links: Let's make postgres multi-threaded: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/31cc6df9-53fe-3cd9-af5b-ac0d801163f4%40iki.fi Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36284487 Follow Heikki: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heikki-linnakangas-6b58bb203/ Website: https://neon.tech...2025-05-062h 00
EOLeaving $1.5B Startup Behind for AI's Next Wave | Neon, Nikita Shamgunov | EO
Leaving $1.5B Startup Behind for AI's Next Wave | Neon, Nikita Shamgunov
Nikita Shamgunov is CoFounder and CEO of Neon, a serverless Postgres platform revolutionizing database infrastructure. From founding SingleStore, a company that reached $1.5B in valuation, to establishing Neon with a fresh approach to growth, Nikita's journey demonstrates the power of embracing new challenges. He shares invaluable insights on navigating rapidly evolving technologies like AI and what it takes to stay adaptable in today's fastpaced tech landscape.This interview series is sponsored by .tech Domainsthe very domain the startups featured in the series build their websites on. Building...2025-05-0512 min
Scaling DevToolsNikita Shamgunov - founder of Neon: storytelling, pricing and hiring execsNikita Shamgunov is the founder of Neon, an open-source serverless Postgres company. Before Neon, Nikita co-founded MemSQL, now SingleStore, which is valued at over a billion dollars. He has also worked as a VC at Khosla Ventures and held engineering roles at Meta and Microsoft. Nikita is known for his strategic thinking and transparency about his decision-making process.We discuss:The importance of storytelling and providing a clear narrative for your companyWhen to introduce a sales team and how to build a sales and marketing "machine"Pricing strategies, including pricing for storage and compute in...2025-03-0647 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS10 Bonus: Nikita Shamgunov, NeonNikita Shamgunov is a native of Russia, coming to the US for grad school in 2005. Eventually he worked at Microsoft on the SQL Server product. A fun fact - Nikita quit business school on the first day, and decided to join Facebook and find his future co-founder. All of this worked out, and he and his co-founder built SingleStore, which is one of the highest valued companies at YC. Outside of tech, he was a semi-professional athlete in Ping Pong, achieving the status of Top 10 in Washington State back when he was at Microsoft.Nikita completed his "...2025-02-0627 min
10KMedia PodcastEpisode 54: Nikita Shamgunov, CEO & Founder of NeonAdam sits down with Nikita to discuss the explosive growth of Postgres, the recent investment from Microsoft's M12, and why infrastructure tools need to be serverless in the age of AI.2024-09-2345 min
Data Engineering PodcastNeon: A Serverless And Developer Friendly PostgresSummaryPostgres is one of the most widely respected and liked database engines ever. To make it even easier to use for developers to use, Nikita Shamgunov decided to makee it serverless, so that it can scale from zero to infinity. In this episode he explains the engineering involved to make that possible, as well as the numerous details that he and his team are packing into the Neon service to make it even more attractive for anyone who wants to build on top of Postgres.AnnouncementsHello and welcome to the Data Engineering Podcast, the show...2024-07-0857 min