Building MotherDuck to a $400M Company

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Jordan Tigani is the cofounder and CEO of MotherDuck, a data warehouse platform based on open source database DuckDB. They've raised $100M in funding from amazing investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis, Madrona, and Altimeter. He was previously the CPO at SingleStore and spent 11 years at Google before that. He has a degree in electrical engineering from Harvard.
Jordan's favorite book: The Master and Margarita (Author: Mikhail Bulgakov)
(00:01) Introduction
(00:08) Founding of MotherDuck
(01:12) The Philosophy of Shipping Products at MotherDuck
(05:02) Founding Story and Identifying the Market Opportunity
(10:57) Building the First Version and Overcoming Early Challenges
(12:23) Validating Customer Needs and Asking the Right Questions
(18:24) Deciding What Features to Prioritize and Exclude
(21:30) Positioning a New Product in a Mature Market
(27:36) Overcoming Challenges in Scaling MotherDuck
(32:29) Measuring Success of New Features in Enterprise Products
(36:20) Structuring the Organization for Effective Execution
(41:09) Preparing MotherDuck for the AI Native Era
(43:28) Rapid Fire Round
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Where to find Jordan Tigani:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordantigani/
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Where to find Prateek Joshi:
Newsletter: https://prateekjoshi.substack.com
Website: https://prateekj.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prateek-joshi-91047b19
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prateekvjoshi

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