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The Future of Graph Databases

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

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Neo4j: How to Build a Community With No Moat

Emile: Neo4j was open sourced right from day one. We knew that selling into the enterprise is not like an afterthought. And so we started monetizing pretty early as well because we just felt that, hey, we want to get kind of both signals of feedback and paying customers. I think this era's closest analogy to you might be these vector database companies in the sense that back when you started, clearly graphs are important. Embeddings are important. What do we do about embeddings? But what's unclear to me, in your case, it seemed like you were not necessarily one use case kind of thing. It seems like the nearest neighbor search seems to be

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