# Weyman Cohen

> Weyman Cohen is a New York-based go-to-market operator at MotherDuck whose career runs from a Duke political science degree through customer-facing roles at Cockroach Labs, Event Store and Superblocks. His public work translates database architecture into practical questions about cost, latency and what teams actually need from their data.

- **Role:** Founding GTM at MotherDuck
- **Organizations:** MotherDuck, Superblocks, Event Store, Cockroach Labs, Duke University
- **Education:** Political Science, Duke University
- **Known for:** Built a public audience of about 9,000 LinkedIn followers around data infrastructure and developer tools., Won first place in the 7A Division 1 Florida State Spanish Conference in 2016., Earned a 99th-percentile score on the National Spanish Exam.

## Career timeline

- **2017** — Received an International Baccalaureate Diploma and began undergraduate study at Duke University.
- **2019** — Collaborated with anthropologist Orin Starn and Honduran construction workers on an interview project, translating interviews from Spanish to English.
- **2020** — As a Duke senior and political science major, worked with the Duke Career Center while pursuing a role in marketing.
- **2021** — Graduated from Duke University and began a career in the database sector.
- **2021-2024** — Held customer-facing roles in the database space at Cockroach Labs and Event Store.
- **2024** — Joined Superblocks in New York as a Sales Development Representative.
- **2025-present** — Works in founding go-to-market at MotherDuck, discussing DuckDB-based analytics, customer-facing analytics and agentic data infrastructure.

## Achievements

- Built a public audience of about 9,000 LinkedIn followers around data infrastructure and developer tools.
- Won first place in the 7A Division 1 Florida State Spanish Conference in 2016.
- Earned a 99th-percentile score on the National Spanish Exam.
- Served as a captain of his high-school boys cross-country team when it qualified for the Florida state meet in 2016.
- Completed an interview and translation project about Honduran construction workers with Duke anthropologist Orin Starn.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Promoted a MotherDuck data dinner in Charlotte focused on data infrastructure, agentic BI, natural-language visualization and agentic ingestion.
- **2026-08** — Highlighted MotherDuck's Data Outpost event and argued that the data layer, rather than the model alone, is a central bottleneck for AI systems.
- **2026-01** — Explained MotherDuck's MCP server as a way for language-model tools to explore real-world schemas and iterate on analytical queries.
- **2025-07** — Published an explanation of how DuckLake and MotherDuck use a SQL database for metadata management instead of layers of files in object storage.

## Links

- Website: https://motherduck.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/weyman-cohen

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Last updated: 2026-09-27