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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.
Weyman Cohen Learned to Sell Databases by Asking Better Questions
In 2020, Weyman Cohen was a Duke senior asking for help finding his way into marketing. Today, after a tour through distributed databases and developer tools, he is making the case for a smaller, faster and more conversational data stack at MotherDuck.
Natalie Vais
Natalie Vais is a General Partner at Spark Capital in San Francisco, where she backs early-stage founders building developer-first tools, platforms, and infrastructure. A former Oracle engineer, Google Cloud product lead, and Amplify Partners principal, she brings rare technical depth to VC - having personally shipped databases and distributed systems before writing checks. Her portfolio includes TigerBeetle, MotherDuck, Polar Signals, and ElectricSQL. While at Google, her team's carbon-monitoring satellite imagery project was named one of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Inventions of 2020.
Mehdi Ouazza
Mehdi Ouazza is a Brussels-based Data Engineer and Developer Advocate at MotherDuck with 10+ years in the data space. He is the first DevRel hire at MotherDuck, a DuckDB-powered cloud analytics startup, where he grew social media by 450% and built a YouTube channel to 900K+ views. Creator of the 'Mehdio's Tech (Data) Corner' newsletter on Substack, founder of DataCreators.Club, and a prolific speaker and open-source contributor, Mehdi is known for demystifying data engineering and AI careers with humor, playfulness, and radical honesty.