postgres is great, but its not great at sharding tables.

Google, Spacex, several startups are all doing this. The best people in their fields think it might be viable. I'm skeptical as well, but you do wonder if maybe they are right and how exciting that would be.

Everyone else is announcing initiatives to investigate the feasibility of this because earthlings currently hate the data center build out. The news is full of anti-DC stories about how much electricity/water they're using. They're selling a story.

Back in the days, I did the first 2m in ARR at Stream myself, it was kinda hard :)

Nice to have a team in place these days, but I still show up for the largest deals to support the team as needed. (140 person company, i think this always stays part of the founder tasks)

Feels like they were first in the space but then somehow Ramp ran away from dev with a higher dev pace. Fascinating to see.

Personally I'm okay with being outcompeted if their's a billion dollar payout at the end.

Everything that's wrong with venture capitalism condensed into a single fifteen word sentence. Bravo.

If you can't provide a billion dollars worth of value, extract a billion dollars worth of grift!

I hear A16Z is hiring.

How is being outcompeted “grift”? I feel like I’m missing some context here.

Why do you start a startup? Is it to build an idea you believe in and believe it is potentially lucrative or is it so you can go through the motions, say the trendy things, and get outcompeted because in the end you are primarily focused on getting acquired with a 1B exit?

Spoken like someone who has never started a business. Brex raised much less than $5b and Capital One apparently thinks it is worth more than that (otherwise they wouldn’t buy it).

This is called value creation.

I think the investors who put $300m in at a $12b valuation would disagree

I don’t think you understand how liquidation preferences work.

They will get $300m back.

Opportunity cost sure. But zero nominal loss.

Your statement is true on average because the world’s economy is continuing to function.

> Your statement is true on average because the world’s economy is continuing to function.

The entire field of economics depends on post ipso facto statements like this.

> can't continue to function even if acquisitions were only 80% value creation on average

The number is much much lower than that. Most acquisitions fail or don't have much impact.

Definitely. And some random guy on HN knows the value of Brex to Capital One better than Capital One does.

Brex can be worth $5b today and also be worth less in the future. These two realities don’t conflict. Acquisitions can and do end poorly. But the vast majority work well. I am not sure what you don’t understand about that?

It's cool how lightweight it is. Recently added support to Vision Agents for Pocket. https://github.com/GetStream/Vision-Agents/tree/main/plugins...

Vector & BM25 on Turbopuffer. (see https://github.com/GetStream/Vision-Agents/blob/main/plugins...)

They could build something like Lovable but with better design/frontend defaults.

10 years ago we started out with Python. We switched to Go probably 8 years back. I think my little startup would have utterly failed without Go. Thx google :)

But yes Enums are so much nicer in Kotlin vs Go. That's true, it doesn't impact productivity much, but he has a point.

I think some pythonistas maybe got their feeling hurt by your comment causing it to grey out.

Over the last 25 years in the SaaS world, I have never seen python evolve into a system that is easy to reason about and debug. It lets you do too many things. In over 30 cases, I have seen teams deliver better software faster in Go after replacing their Python.

Well.. there are many fast growing companies that provide UI + APIs for certain components of your app. Sure you can build things easier in-house, but the opportunity cost of doing so also went up. Supabase, Stream, Clerk, Stainless all growing very well.

Why hate on someone doing their best and building.