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Xata Built a Database. Then It Built the Escape Hatch.
After selling developers a friendlier database, Xata discovered the sharper problem: engineers and AI agents need real data they can safely break. Its second act is a bet on cheap, disposable Postgres branches.
Yves Le Maout and the Small Distance Between a Laptop and the Cloud
He learned to make risk systems dependable, led a remote analytics team, then helped put DuckDB in the cloud. Yves Le Maout's career is a study in making ambitious systems feel close at hand.
The Electrical Engineer Who Chose the Sales Floor
Sanket Kumar trained to work with circuits. Instead, he built a career around conversations - and became the salesperson one manager chose to hire twice.
Enes Akar Is Making the Database Disappear
After two decades inside distributed systems, the Upstash co-founder has turned an engineer’s irritation with idle infrastructure into a company built for code that appears, runs and vanishes.
Nate Stewart
Nate Stewart is the CEO of Materialize, the streaming operational data warehouse based in New York. He took the role in April 2024 after seven years leading product at Cockroach Labs (CockroachDB), where he also sat on the board. He is a Michigan CS undergrad, an MIT Sloan MBA, and a former lead backend engineer at Bloomberg who won the MIT $100K entrepreneurship competition on his way out of business school.