Self-Funding Leads to Sustainable Growth

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Establishing a company without external venture capital creates unique advantages, including the ability to focus on product development while avoiding pressure from investors. Operating under a research institute allows for reduced operational costs, enabling the project to mature towards commercial viability. Securing research grants can further support early development phases, and this approach can lead to meaningful customer engagement even before an official company launch. As a result, the self-funded entity can thrive based on direct user needs and support, proving that profitability can be achieved without reliance on typical investment models.

DuckDB is an open-source column-oriented relational database that was first released in 2019. It’s designed to provide high performance on complex queries against large databases, and focuses on online analytical processing workloads.

Hannes Mühleisen is the Co-Creator of DuckBD, and is the CEO and Co-Founder of DuckDB Labs. He joins the show to talk about drawing inspiration from SQLite, why DuckDB was written in C++, the novel data processing scenarios it enables, and more.

This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.

Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com.

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