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For the founders of RapidSOS, improving the quality of emergency response by adding useful data, like location, to 911 calls was an inspiring objective, and one that garnered widespread support. Continue reading RapidSOS learned that the best product design is sometimes no product design
Database technology can change the world, but the world in these parts changes very, very slowly. That’s made building a startup in the sector a tough equation. Continue reading The CockroachDB EC-1
There is an art to engineering and sometimes engineering can transform art. For Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, the two worlds collided when they created the open-source graphics program, GIMP. Continue reading CockroachDB, the database that just won’t die
The founders of Cockroach Labs wanted to ensure data written in one location would be viewable immediately anywhere on the planet. The use case was simple, but the work needed was herculean. Continue reading How engineers fought the CAP theorem in the global war on latency
Cockroach Labs has many things going for it. The company’s approach to distributed database technology is novel, and it has the potential to gain significant market share internationally. Continue reading “Developers, as you know, do not like to pay for things”
CockroachDB’s success is not guaranteed. It has to overcome significant hurdles to secure a profitable place among well-established database technologies owned by companies with very deep pockets. Continue reading Scaling CockroachDB in the red ocean of relational databases
Take a close look at any ambitious startup and you’ll find pugnacity nestled in its core. Stubbornness and a bullheaded belief in the worth of what a company wants to bring to fruition is often the biggest driver of its success. Continue reading How Expensify hacked its way to a robust, scalable tech stack
Expensify may be the most ambitious software company ever to mostly abandon the Bay Area as the center of its operations. The startup’s history is tied to places representative of San Francisco: The founding team worked out of Peet’s Coffee on Mission Street for a few months, then crashed at a penthouse lounge near the […] Continue reading How Expensify shed Silicon Valley arrogance to realize its global ambitions
The influence of a founder on their company’s culture cannot be overstated. Everything from their views on the product and business to how they think about people affects how their company’s employees will behave. Continue reading How Expensify got to $100M in revenue by hiring “stem cells” and not “cogs in a wheel”
Let’s make it clear from the outset that this story is about an expense management SaaS business called Expensify. As you’d expect, yes, this is about the expense management market and how Expensify has grown, its technology and all of that. Normally, that would make us change the channel. But this is also a story […] Continue reading The Expensify EC-1