Episode Details

Ajay Kulkarni grew up in tech, as his father was a tech entrepreneur selling PC's in the early 80's. He went to college in MIT, and eventually founded a startup that was acquired by GroupMe (while it was being acquired by Skype... while they were being acquired by Microsoft). He's always been attracted to building things, so startups are right up his alley. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 young kids. He is a big exercise guy... he loves to run, swim and track his steps. Additionally, he loves music - to listen, and to play guitar, piano and drums.

Ajay and his co-founder met 30 years ago at MIT. They reconnected after years of doing their own thing, starting to dig into the iOT world. In doing this, they built a database because they the best solution to store this data... and in doing so, they unlocked their next venture out of this necessity.

This is the creation story of Tiger Data.

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Links

• https://www.tigerdata.com/
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Timestamps

00:00 Accidental Database MVP

00:41 Podcast Intro Setup

01:34 Ajay Background

02:50 Meeting Co Founder

04:11 Why Tiger Data

05:36 MVP Building TimescaleDB

07:06 Postgres Not NoSQL

08:50 Roadmap And Agents

10:40 Hiring The Right Team

11:59 Scaling As CEO

13:23 Resilience And Pride

14:36 Mistakes And Lessons

17:33 Future Physical World

19:18 Stoicism And Influence

21:01 Advice Play Love Triumph

23:54 Closing And Credits

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