Building MotherDuck to a $400M Company

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 -------- Where to find Jordan Tigani: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordantigani/ -------- 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