Ajay Kulkarni

If this solves a bigger problem, let's explore that.

We started off thinking we were building a time series database for IoT.

That's where we started.

And so when we kind of pivoted to become a database company early 2017, we called ourselves Timescale.

That seemed like a good name for a time series database.

I like it.

That's cool, right?

It's pretty self-explanatory.

And we actually saw there was a big demand in time series that was more than IoT.

Some in finance and events and then soon crypto and some other areas.

But over time...

Again, we're going through this journey with the industry.

We started off as an enterprise sales motion.

At the beginning of the pandemic, we went all in on cloud, stopped selling on-prem, and said, hey, we're going to be a cloud company.

And yeah, at that point, we were running...

databases for customers.

And we got to see a lot of data.

And I saw, wow, there are a lot of companies who are like 20 people spending 50, 100, 150K with us.

And I remember asking like, hey, what are you doing?

Like, you know, what are you using this for?