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TBPNOur Super Bowl Ad, Walmart hits $1T, Ken is Sick of Griftin | Dara Khosrowshahi, Mati Staniszewski & Andrew Reed, Gergely Orosz, Mitchell Green, Simon Hørup Eskildsen, KJ Dhaliwal, Nicolas SharpSign up for TBPN’s daily newsletter at TBPN.com(00:17) - Our Super Bowl Ad
(06:43) - Ads in AI Commercial Reactions
(31:11) - Walmart hits $1T
(35:05) - Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, a company specializing in AI-driven voice synthesis, discusses the company's recent $500 million Series D funding round, valuing ElevenLabs at $11 billion, and highlights the rapid growth in annual recurring revenue, reaching $330 million by the end of 2025. He emphasizes the expansion of their product offerings, including advancements in voice agents and conversational models, and notes significant enterprise adoption with clients like Deutsche Te...
2026-02-043h 10TBPN$DJT Goes Nuclear, OpenAI in talks at $750B, 2025 Model Wars in Review | Brian Armstrong & Tarek Mansour, Simon Eskildsen(00:30) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions
(05:02) - OpenAI in talks at $750B
(08:56) - WB Board Questions Paramount's Funding Stability
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(55:03) - Brian Armstrong and Tarek Mansour are the co-founders of Coinbase, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency platforms. Armstrong, a former Airbnb engineer, serves as CEO and has been a leading advocate for mainstream crypto adoption, while Mansour, Coinbase’s CTO, architected much of the company’s core infrastructure and security systems.
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(01:44:16) - Simon Hørup Eskildsen, co-founder and CEO of turbopuffer—a serverless vector and full-text search platform—discusses the company's recent addition of Thrive Capital as an...
2025-12-182h 38
Database SchoolBuilding serverless vector search with Turbopuffer CEO, Simon EskildsenIn this episode, Aaron Francis talks with Simon Eskildsen, co-founder and CEO of TurboPuffer, about building a high-performance search engine and database that runs entirely on object storage. They dive deep on Simon's time as an engineer at Shopify, database design trade-offs, and how TurboPuffer powers modern AI workloads like Cursor and Notion.Follow Simon:Twitter: https://twitter.com/SirupsenLinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/sirupsenTurbopuffer: https://turbopuffer.comFollow Aaron:Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis Database School: https://databaseschool.comDatabase School YouTube Channel: https://ww...
2025-11-131h 06
A Product Market Fit Show | Startup Podcast for FoundersHe built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. | Simon Eskildsen, Founder of turbopufferSimon spent 10 years at Shopify scaling databases to millions of requests per second. Then he discovered vector databases were so expensive that companies couldn't launch AI features. So he solved it. When Cursor emailed about their crushing costs, Simon flew to San Francisco unannounced. They migrated their entire workload within a week, cutting their bill by 95%. Then came Notion. Justin pulled 24-hour coding marathons during their POC, fixing 300 milliseconds of latency in three hours. They signed on July 25th—the same day Simon's daughter was born. Now TurboPuffer powers Cursor, Notion, and Linear while staying prof...
2025-10-3053 minTBPNSora 2 Launch Reactions, DoorDash CEO Live in The Ultradome | Tony Xu, Simon Eskildsen, Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Zach Abrams, Andrew Feldman, Brandon Millman, Stanley Tang, Alex Albert, Arthur Querou(00:21) - Sora 2 Launch Reactions
(13:13) - Tony Xu, CEO and co-founder of DoorDash, discusses the company's recent innovations, including the 'Going Out' feature for in-restaurant dining, Dash Smart Fulfillment Services enabling one-hour delivery for retailers without physical stores, and the autonomous delivery vehicle 'DoorDash Dot.' He emphasizes the importance of continuous improvement and innovation to maintain a competitive edge in the evolving delivery industry. Xu also highlights DoorDash's commitment to supporting local businesses and enhancing customer experiences through technological advancements.
(39:19) - Patrick O’Shaughnessy is the CEO of Positive Sum, founder of Colossus, and host of the popular in...
2025-09-303h 09
Podcast Archives - Software Engineering DailyTurbopuffer with Simon Hørup Eskildsen
Vector search has become a foundational technology for AI applications, enabling everything from semantic code search to contextual retrieval for large language models. However, a major challenge with vector databases has been the cost as data storage scales.
Turbopuffer is a vector database that focuses on speed, cost and scalability. It was created by Simon Hørup Eskildsen and Justin Li in 2023 and has seen adoption from high-profile companies such as Cursor and Notion.
Simon joins the podcast with Gregor Vand to discuss the origin of turbopuffer, its unique technical design, the economics of vector s...
2025-09-3048 minSoftware Engineering DailyTurbopuffer with Simon Hørup Eskildsen
Vector search has become a foundational technology for AI applications, enabling everything from semantic code search to contextual retrieval for large language models. However, a major challenge with vector databases has been the cost as data storage scales.
Turbopuffer is a vector database that focuses on speed, cost and scalability. It was created by Simon Hørup Eskildsen and Justin Li in 2023 and has seen adoption from high-profile companies such as Cursor and Notion.
Simon joins the podcast with Gregor Vand to discuss the origin of turbopuffer, its unique technical design, the economics of vector s...
2025-09-3048 minAll Content Archives - Software Engineering DailyTurbopuffer with Simon Hørup Eskildsen
Vector search has become a foundational technology for AI applications, enabling everything from semantic code search to contextual retrieval for large language models. However, a major challenge with vector databases has been the cost as data storage scales.
Turbopuffer is a vector database that focuses on speed, cost and scalability. It was created by Simon Hørup Eskildsen and Justin Li in 2023 and has seen adoption from high-profile companies such as Cursor and Notion.
Simon joins the podcast with Gregor Vand to discuss the origin of turbopuffer, its unique technical design, the economics of vector s...
2025-09-3048 min
Software Engineering DailyTurbopuffer with Simon Hørup EskildsenVector search has become a foundational technology for AI applications, enabling everything from semantic code search to contextual retrieval for large language models. However, a major challenge with vector databases has been the cost as data storage scales.
Turbopuffer is a vector database that focuses on speed, cost and scalability. It was created by Simon Hørup Eskildsen and Justin Li in 2023 and has seen adoption from high-profile companies such as Cursor and Notion.
Simon joins the podcast with Gregor Vand to discuss the origin of turbopuffer, its unique technical design, the economics of vector s...
2025-09-3051 min
Vector PodcastEconomical way of serving vector search workloads with Simon Eskildsen, CEO TurbopufferTurbopuffer search engine supports such products as Cursor, Notion, Linear, Superhuman and Readwise.This episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/I8ZtqajighgMedium: https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/vector-podcast-simon-eskildsen-turbopuffer-69e456da8df3Dev: https://dev.to/vectorpodcast/vector-podcast-simon-eskildsen-turbopuffer-cfaIf you are on Lucene / OpenSearch stack, you can go managed by signing up here: https://console.aiven.io/signup?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=&&utm_content=vectorpodcastTime codes:00:00 Intro00:15 Napkin Problem 4: Throughput of Redis01:35 Episode intro02:45...
2025-09-191h 15
Postgres FMturbopufferNik and Michael are joined by Simon Eskildsen from turbopuffer — among other things, they discuss ANN index types, tradeoffs that can make sense for search workloads, and when it can make sense to move search out of Postgres. Here are some links to things they mentioned:Simon Eskildsen https://postgres.fm/people/simon-eskildsenturbopuffer https://turbopuffer.comUse ULID Idempotency Keys (tip 6 in this blog post from Shopify) https://shopify.engineering/building-resilient-payment-systemsPostgreSQL 18 Release Candidate 1 https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-rc-1-released-3130Understanding DiskANN (blog post by Junaid Ahmed) https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/understanding-diskannSPFresh: Incremental In-Place Upd...
2025-09-1249 min
The Hard Part with Evan McCannSimon Hørup Eskildsen from turbopufferSimon Hørup Eskildsen is the Co-Founder and CEO of turbopuffer.turbopuffer is a fast search engine that combines vector and full-text search using object storage, making all your data easily searchable.Chapters00:00 Introduction to turbopuffer06:46 Revolutionizing Search with TurboPuffer11:45 Technical Innovations Behind TurboPuffer15:55 Caching Mechanisms and Performance19:27 Scaling Challenges and Solutions23:09 Navigating Industry Shifts and Market Dynamics30:08 Sales Strategies and Founder-Led Growth35:43 Pricing Models and Customer Relationships41:25 Staying in Canada v...
2025-08-2547 min
BarrchivesHow to Build 10x Cheaper Object Storage, with Simon Eskildsen, CEO at TurbopufferIn this episode of Barrchives, Barr Yaron sits down with Simon Eskildsen, co-founder and CEO of turbopuffer, to explore how he went from infrastructure challenges at Shopify to launching a groundbreaking vector database company.Simon shares his journey from recognizing the inefficiencies of traditional vector storage solutions to creating TurboPuffer, a revolutionary database designed specifically for AI-driven applications. He details key moments of insight—from working with startups struggling with prohibitive storage costs, to realizing the untapped potential of affordable object storage combined with modern vector indexing techniques.This ep...
2025-08-0549 min
Unsupervised Learning with Jacob EffronEp 71: CEO of TurboPuffer Simon Eskildsen on Building Smarter Retrieval, AI App Must-Have Features & Current State of Vector DBsFill out this short listener survey to help us improve the show: https://forms.gle/bbcRiPTRwKoG2tJx8In this episode, Simon Eskildsen, co-founder and CEO of TurboPuffer, lays out a compelling vision for how AI-native infrastructure needs to evolve in an era where every application wants to connect massive amounts of context to large language models. He breaks down why traditional databases and even large context windows fall short—especially at scale—and why object-storage-native search is the inevitable next step. Drawing on his experience from Shopify and Readwise, Simon introduces the SCRAP framework to explain the limi...
2025-07-2251 min
tman's random youtube archiveSREcon19 Europe/Middle East/Africa - Advanced Napkin Math: Estimating System...Advanced Napkin Math: Estimating System Performance from First Principles
Simon Eskildsen, Shopify
Ever stood in front of the whiteboard with a group of your co-workers designing a system, but found yourself in that awkward position where none of you were able to answer whether something would be fast enough? In this talk, you'll learn how to combine base rates to answer challenging questions in a jiffy on pull requests, technical reviews, or in meetings, for example: Can we in the 5-second critical window on a regional failover, do a snapshot-and-restore of Memcached to the other...
2025-05-2300 min
The GeekNarratorHow do vector (search) databases work? ft: turbopufferFor memberships: join this channel as a member here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_mGuY4g0mggeUGM6V1osdA/joinSummary:In this conversation, Kaivalya Apte and Simon Eskildsen talk about vector databases, particularly focusing on TurboPuffer. They discuss the importance of vector search, embeddings, and the challenges associated with building efficient search engines. The conversation covers various aspects such as cost considerations, chunking strategies, multi-tenancy, and performance optimization. Simon shares insights on the future of vector search and the significance of observability and metrics in database performance. The discussion emphasizes the need for practical application and experimentation in...
2025-04-071h 08The GeekNarratorHow would you design a database on Object Storage?Join Kaivalya Apte and Simon Hørup Eskildsen from Turbopuffer as they talk about the complexities of building a database on top of object storage. Discover the key challenges, the nuances of various storage formats, and the critical trade-offs involved.
Learn from Simon's rich experience, from his time at Shopify to creating Turbopuffer. This episode covers everything—from approaches to write-ahead logs to multi-tenancy and object storage advancements. Perfect for database enthusiasts and those keen on first-principles thinking!
00:00 Introduction
00:17 Simon's Background and Journey to TurboBuffer
02:42 Challenges in Database Scalability
04:21 Experimenting with Vector Databases
05:02 Cost Implications of Vector Databases
05:52 Architectural Con...
2024-12-021h 08
AI and IHow to Use AI to Become a Learning Machine - Ep. 34 with Simon EskildsenThis episode is sponsored by Reflect. It’s the ultra-fast note-taking app that’s about to change the way you take notes. To boost your productivity with advanced features like custom prompts and voice transcripts, give Reflect a try by clicking on this link: https://reflect.app/?utm_source=every&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_campaign=september2024
Simon Eskildsen is a learning machine.
I first interviewed him in 2020 about how he leveled up from an intern at Shopify to the company’s director of production engineering by reading and applying insights from hundreds of books.
A lot...
2024-09-111h 13
AI & IHow to Use AI to Become a Learning Machine - Ep. 34 with Simon EskildsenSimon Eskildsen is a learning machine. I first interviewed him in 2020 about how he leveled up from being an intern at Shopify to becoming the company’s director of production engineering by reading and applying insights from hundreds of books.A lot has changed over the last four years. Language models have made it possible to access and contextualize information faster, easier, and more cheaply than ever before—and in this episode, Simon and I talk about how this changes the way he learns. Simon...
2024-09-111h 13
Hacking Creativity263 - Diventare una macchina per l'apprendimento (DAILY)Simon Eskildsen è diventato in breve tempo il direttore dell’ingegneria di produzione di Shopify, e questo gli ha richiesto di dover imparare tante, tante cose in un tempo limitato. Obiettivo riuscito: oggi hackeriamo il suo metodo! P.S. Vuoi provare il tool di Edo che riassume video molto lunghi? Abbiamo il link anche di questo: www.heydrafter.com▫️ Entra nella nostra community: https://bit.ly/3jUs8Ez ▫️ Vuoi ricevere gli Appunti (la nostra newsletter)? https://bit.ly/3RJkbA5CONTATTI▫️ Email: info@hacking-creativity.com▫️ Instagram: https://bit.ly/2HVP8D4
2023-12-1211 min
Data Engineering PodcastBe Confident In Your Data Integration By Quickly Validating Matching Records With data-diffSummary
The perennial challenge of data engineers is ensuring that information is integrated reliably. While it is straightforward to know whether a synchronization process succeeded, it is not always clear whether every record was copied correctly. In order to quickly identify if and how two data systems are out of sync Gleb Mezhanskiy and Simon Eskildsen partnered to create the open source data-diff utility. In this episode they explain how the utility is implemented to run quickly and how you can start using it in your own data workflows to ensure that your data warehouse isn’t mi...
2022-07-031h 10
4-togetNattoget, SMUK-fest, status på VAR og bodega-kulturI går var det muligt at stige på et nattog i Høje Taastrup med kurs mod Tyskland. Det er 7 år siden et nattog sidst har gjort hold i Danmark, men nu kommer Snälltoget fra Stockholm og holder i Høje Taastrup, før det futter videre mod Hamborg og Berlin. Sommeren 2021 er for mange blevet lidt som sommeren 2020: en hel del anderledes, end man havde regnet med. Det gælder også Skanderborg Festival - eller SMUK-fest - der som alle andre festivaler måtte opgive at åbne dørene til klassisk festival. Derfor arrangerer de i år et alternativ...
2021-06-2854 min
The Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceEstimating systems with napkin math (Interview)We’re joined by Simon Eskildsen, Principal Engineer at Shopify, talking about how he uses a concept called napkin math where you use first-principle thinking to estimate systems without writing any code. By the end of the show we were estimating pretty much everything using napkin math.
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2020-09-121h 04Changelog InterviewsEstimating systems with napkin mathWe’re joined by Simon Eskildsen, Principal Engineer at Shopify, talking about how he uses a concept called napkin math where you use first-principle thinking to estimate systems without writing any code. By the end of the show we were estimating pretty much everything using napkin math.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free usin...
2020-09-121h 04
The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 534 Power Reader Simon Eskildsen Site Reliability Engineering Lead at Shopify Interview starts at 10:07 and ends at 43:36 "If someone were to come around with some hardware that was even 50 percent worse than the Kindle but was opened up for easy highlight consumption, making it easier to see what highlights my friends have done, and all these sorts of things--I would switch in a heartbeat. " News "Amazon Kindle versus iPhone XS Max: choosing the best e-book reader" at AppleInsider - October 24, 2018 "Jeff Bezos wants us all to leave earth--for good" by Steven Levy...
2018-10-2644 min
The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 533 New Kindle Paperwhite! Joerg Tewes, Head of Kindle Product Management, and Kevin Keith, VP Amazon Devices New Paperwhite at Amazon.com Kevin Keith, VP-Amazon Devices Joerg Tewes, Head of Product Management for Kindle Press Release on new Paperwhite - October 16, 2018 Click here to check for software updates for your Kindle or Fire device Next Week's Guest Simon Hørup Eskildsen, author of "How I Read" Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version i...
2018-10-1944 min