Nikita Shamgunov is a native of Russia, coming to the US for grad school in 2005. Eventually he worked at Microsoft on the SQL Server product. A fun fact - Nikita quit business school on the first day, and decided to join Facebook and find his future co-founder. All of this worked out, and he and his co-founder built SingleStore, which is one of the highest valued companies at YC. Outside of tech, he was a semi-professional athlete in Ping Pong, achieving the status of Top 10 in Washington State back when he was at Microsoft.Nikita completed his &#34;tour of duty&#34; at SingleStore, and post that, he joined a venture fund. He pitched incubating an idea of his at the fund, which was rolling up all Postgres instances in the world. He started to engineer an approach, the team, and the architecture - and did so in some very unique, and deliberate ways.This is the creation story of <a href="https://neon.tech/" rel="nofollow">Neon</a>.Sponsors<ul><li><a href="https://rapyd.cloud/?fpr=noah52" rel="nofollow">Rapyd Cloud</a></li><li><a href="https://speakeasy.com/codestory" rel="nofollow">Speakeasy</a></li><li><a href="https://www.qawolf.com/" rel="nofollow">QA Wolf</a></li><li><a href="https://snaptrade.com/codestory" rel="nofollow">SnapTrade</a></li></ul>Links<ul><li><a href="https://neon.tech/" rel="nofollow">https://neon.tech/</a></li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikitashamgunov/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikitashamgunov/</a></li></ul> Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations'>https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

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