S10 Bonus: Nikita Shamgunov, Neon

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🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Nikita 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 "tour of duty" at SingleStore, and post that, he joined a venture fund. He pitched incubating an idea of his at the fund, which was rolling up all Postgres instances in the world. He started to engineer an approach, the team, and the architecture - and did so in some very unique, and deliberate ways. This is the creation story of Neon. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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1:40.3	The original idea was to build an open source alternative to AWS Aurora.
1:46.9	The key idea of Aurora, which we took to the next level, was separation of storage and compute.
1:52.5	In a year, we were ready, we started to onboard some internal users.
1:56.9	As we started to work on the launch, it leaked, right? Because we didn't hide the website behind a password.
2:02.6	So suddenly posted it in Hacker News, and we had a lot of traffic coming to the website.
2:08.6	Right before that, we started to see our GitHub repo, and we were building in the public,
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