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building @tembo_io · multi-workload Postgres that enables organizations to harness the full power of Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI use cases
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Exciting day today in our journey from “you can’t start a company like that in the Midwest” to a legit “Cincinnati-founded Unicorn” - backed by the absolute greatest VC firms. The team is fired up to execute from here 🔥 So proud of what we’ve accomplished, and the vision forward
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Announcing our $6.5M seed round for
@coredb_io
, led by
@ethanjb
from
@Venrock
, which we will use to build a game-changing managed Postgres service.
Blog:
DM me if you'd like a fast pass through our waitlist :)
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As a multiple-time founder, I’m looking to pay it forward and invest in other founders.
In my experience, first-time founders tend to get two things wrong:
(1) They’re not focused enough on storytelling as a direct pipeline to fundraising. If you can nail your story, then you
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The Dual Flywheels of Modern Open Source Commercialization
1. Open source your core.
2. Build a managed SaaS around it ASAP.
3. Keep the OSS and SaaS flywheels spinning at ~ the same speed. Doesn’t have to be perfect.
4. If one starts spinning faster than
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I am going to start a podcast about Postgres extensions.
Postgres extensions are not well understood, and I want to make them understandable by talking to the people who create them.
Extensions are so valuable to me and to the broader community, and awareness deserves to be
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One of the most important things founders can do is support the ecosystem that supported them. That’s why I’m helping to launch a new
#StartupCincy
Meetup series.
Fellow builders, founders, students, and investors - come gather for a peek at Cincinnati’s next great innovations.
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Just posted Tembo Cloud to Product Hunt
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Excited to be wrapping up my last iteration ever of talking to 30 potential investors in a ~week. It was exciting to have much inbound interest, but I've learned that I would have rather gone deeper with fewer, and taken my chances on that.
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Taking your
@meteorjs
app into production? Looking for
@astronomerio
alpha testers...
http://t.co/YJc9qrhQE5
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Join me at Union Hall on Nov 8th @ 5:30pm for the
#StartupCincy
Meetup. Builders, founders, students, investors.
No pitching, no slides. 🔥Live Demos Only 🔥
To attend (free):
Request for stage time:
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Amazing
#StartupCincy
ecosystem map behind
@WendySLea
at
#StartupCincy
townhall meeting at
@BraxtonBrewCo
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I’m actively hiring React, Rust, and Postgres - if you or anyone you know are looking for a change :)
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Startups - where you can feel like a visionary genius and a delusional fool simultaneously, and reality is whichever you decide to believe.
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Revised Tembo Manifesto w/ some updated content + screenshots — would love to have you kick the tires if you use Postgres!
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Question for Twitter AI experts... What impact will the rise of LLMs have on "traditional" neural nets like FNNs (feedforward), CNNs (convolutional), RNNs (recurrent)?
Increases need for xNNs
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No impact
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Decreases need for xNNs
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Obliterates need for xNNs
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This blog post needed to be written, thanks
@martin_casado
@a16z
— "for an enterprise software company that’s in a pre-chasm market, leaning in to services can also be a good thing for the business" — thanks for sending over the link
@harsh1
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My 9-year old built a keynote presentation on "why we should go to Bora Bora" - is now in next room presenting to neighbor kid
#startuplife
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I’m happy to report that we have twice as many apps sending us data this week vs. last week.
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Idea (maybe this exists?) LoadBalancer Bank - a virtual bank that auto-rebalances your cash into as many banks as necessary to maintain max 250k - like data infra, treat bank accounts as cattle not pets. Edit:
@mercury
does this with up to 4 banks, they call it sweep accounts $1M
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@rlfrahm
@tembo_io
We have a great relationship w Supabase - they have a great team and product.
First difference - we have different origin stories - they started as an alternative to firebase, we started because we think the full power of postres ecosystem OSS projects isn’t as accessible to
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Our unique path to raising $2M seed round thanks investors!
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Beautiful Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati at our new property - caught a bass 🎣cleared brush 💪 it’s fun working on a big “non-software”project that will benefit my family directly - but now that the sun is going down, time to start hacking on 👨💻🔥
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We have strong open source projects now two or three decades old and no signs of faltering (ie Linux, Postgres, Git)
It’ll be wild if these projects can get to 40, 50, 60 years old—and be “lifelong” fixtures for the entire career of some devs.
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Great week, excited that
@samay_sharma
shared our vision for Tembo Stacks — great read :)
To check out Stacks, sign up @ , and you can also try installing any of the 150 categorized Postgres extensions that we've made available.
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Uptech accelerator applications are open great path to getting your new venture started in
#StartupCincy
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Startups are an infinite boxing match. You’re getting pummeled all the time with very real problems and setbacks, but you can and must punch like hell to get out of the corner—and make it to the next round :) the best founders find a way to enjoy the mayhem, but NONE of them are
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What a strange time - ai/ml is bleeding into everything - “classic” databases can arguably be considered ai/ml tools, maybe even ai/ml platforms, quite possibly the big winners of the era if cards are played right - DATABASES! those boring things we rarely gave much thought to
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I posted to LinkedIn recently:
"Learning Java is a waste of time for today’s college students. It’s not applicable to today’s cutting-edge tech market anymore." and got a lot of disagreement.
So let's dig into that hole deeper :)
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you know you have great CTO (
@schnierules
) when team builds site counting down his vacation
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@developer_jass
@ImSh4yy
OLTP - Postgres
Datawarehouse - Postgres (w columnar)
Search - Postgres (w pg_vector)
Queue - Postgres (w pgmq)
High volume ingestion - Postgres (it can handle it)
ML - Postgres (w PostgresML)
Need I go on… :)
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We're experimenting with some new visualizations of
@ApacheAirflow
metrics within Astronomer v0.9.1(ships later today!)
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Why Ohio Is The Best State In America To Launch A Start Up via
@forbes
nice job
@orosapparel
@NCTventures
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Cities I’ll have been in today… Cincy, Houston, Salt Lake City, Chicago, New York
#startupHustle
#StartUpCincy
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@henrysward
@karrisaarinen
Henry when can we expect a postmortem on this situation? Please write something to your customers ASAP (about the length of this tweet that I’m replying to will do) - rather that replying to one customer on Twitter
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Want to start writing more - here are a few thoughts on commercial open-source
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@YingjunWu
@rlfrahm
@tembo_io
We have a great relationship w Neon - they have a great team and product. I'm not just placating here :) My attitude is to support the other Postgres upstarts, the database market is $80B+ there's enough customer for everybody!
So Neon has taken on a big R&D challenge, making
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Note from my daughter to president Obama about high cost of uggs
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Confident, bold prediction
@ChrisOlsenCMH
@drivecapital
"the Midwest will have more startups than Silicon Valley"
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A prescription from
@schigel
for how
#StartupCincy
can break into the top 5 startup ecosystems
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Watching himself on the Jumbotron - congrats to my son Emerson for making it through high school
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ahh, back on
@X
after a weekend ban, for apparently clicking so fast "the algorithm" thought i was a bot.
I accept that compliment.
Thank you
@adrianpcarbone
for the assist :)
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@HarryStebbings
Absolutely - nothing beats in-person for effective teamwork. However, there are often key hires that can only be found remote.
So hybrid wins for me, with regular team gatherings — excited to get the
@tembo_io
team together next week in-person
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I just published “Professional Services for an Early Stage SaaS Company”
http://t.co/0JOVCxoGjY
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Accidentally pulled up Wallet on my phone; brings back fond memories of a time long long ago
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I'm buying $GTLB tomorrow - bonkers the stock loses 1/3 of value (after hours) despite beating earnings and revenue, but because they want to halve their burn (and target less growth as a result).
the market wants them to keep pedal to the metal?
I'm ok w/ their plan.
#BUY
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Love this:
"There is a secret that needs to be understood in order to write good software documentation: there isn’t one thing called documentation, there are four. They are: tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference and explanation."
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Some predicted it would never happen :) So proud of our team, and the entire Airflow community for its laser-focused execution. So many commits, so many great new features.
Airflow 2.0 is almost here.
An HA Scheduler. A new REST API. Smart Sensors. Task Groups. A modern UI... and so much more.
To those contributing - thank you. This is a huge milestone for
@ApacheAirflow
and we could not be more excited.
Stay tuned. 🤓🚀
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So proud of my man
@dapearce
crushing it at
#UT4DemoDay
@UpTechIdeas
#StartupCincy
great looking presentation
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What is a good CRM alternative to Hubspot for startups? (hate that it's a 1-year 90% discount, that year goes by fast) also, not Salesforce :)
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Huge turnout for DataSeed event at Union Hall - Cincinnati is a force in data science
#startupcincy
#givefirst
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Question to the Twitterverse: If you could analyze data from any data source, what would it be? And what insights would you be looking for?
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@KarlMorand
"New sign in page live in prod, moving on to the create org part next"
DM me your email address if you'd like a
@tembo_io
invite :)
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Great feature
@PlausibleHQ
- nice to wake up to our blog post on pg_later on front page of HN, and you alerting me to that fact by emailing re: the start of the traffic spike :)
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First we had test-driven development, user-story-driven-development, documentation-driven development, and recently blogpost-driven-development (adapted from Amazon PRFAQ)… but now a new category soc2-requirements-driven-development
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Anyone looking for a greenfield, full-time Rust lang job and a nice comp/equity package? Hit me up, DMs open :)
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@jasoncwarner
Not everything gets replaced tho - Linux going strong - I think kubernetes will have a long run too, even tho ppl are itchy for new - Git still has legs, can’t point to big weaknesses, like we could with subversion and cvs and visual source safe (all hail Linus)
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Great content this morning
@bfeld
and panel I n giving as entrepreneurial community
#GiveFirst
#FounderCon
#StartUpCincy
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Every startup founder needs to listen to
@jaredsf
@MatrixPartners
"From Concept to Growth” talk on
@TWistartups
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I end every zoom meeting asking "if you're signed into Github, would you go star our new public repos @ " — I wish it didn't matter, but it definitely does.
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I just published "How to test a software startup idea"
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Hey
#StartupCincy
peeps make sure you attend
#FounderCon
Community Day event 3p-6pm on Oct 19th - register here:
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@bernhardsson
I love using Modal, we’re invoking serverless Python functions every 20 seconds to power data pipelines for
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When you have teenage daughters using your Amazon account around Halloween, you may get interesting product recommendations
#goldmember
#toightlikeatiger
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Nice ending to a great day crushed by
@colinpflynn
@davidjwoody
#NFLblitz
99 at
@16BitBar
- you win
@BeDifferential
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If I'm coding on Saturday, it means I'm feeling inspired + motivated about what I'm working on:
@meteor
@polymer
@usercycle
@BeDifferential
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Nice -
http://t.co/APwEUqeF3V
is on
@ProductHunt
today, hack-day project by
@BeDifferential
currently
#5
- built w/
@meteorjs
#StartupCincy
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We're hiring for lots of
@ApacheAirflow
related positions - feel free to DM me to chat about them
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