
Dev Propulsion Labs
Dev Propulsion Labs is a podcast about building successful developer tool companies. Hosts from the Evil Martians team interview prominent dev tools founders with the goal of sharing knowledge in the maturing developer tool and commercial open source industry.
Latest episodes

Nov 30, 2023 • 33min
Peer Richelsen - Cal.com
This week we are featuring Peer Richelsen who is disrupting the scheduling space with the open-sourced Cal.com.TooltipsEvil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products.https://evilmartians.com/

Nov 30, 2023 • 33min
Monica Sarbu - Xata
This week's guest is Monica Sarbu, Founder and CEO at Xata, a serverless database platform powered by PostgreSQL. Prior to that, she worked on an open-source monitoring solution called Packetbeat which was acquired by Elastic in 2015. She is also the co-founder of tupu.io, a non-profit initiative that offers free mentorship to women, people of color, and other underrepresented groups in the tech industry.TooltipsEvil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products.https://evilmartians.com/

Nov 30, 2023 • 35min
Nikita Shamgunov - Neon
This week we are learning from Nikita Shamgunov, CEO at Neon and Partner at Khosla Ventures who previously co-founded MemSQL and scaled to ~40M ARR.Neon is fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. They separate storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.TooltipsEvil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products.https://evilmartians.com/

Nov 30, 2023 • 32min
Stefan Avram - WunderGraph
This week we talk to Stefan Avram, Co-Founder and Head of Growth at Wundergraph, a Backend for Frontend Framework to optimize frontend, fullstack and backend developer workflows through API Composition.TooltipsEvil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products.https://evilmartians.com/