founder-video-v1.md

Who Are We - Steven (5 seconds)

• hello Y Combinator! I'm Steven (And I'm Håkan)
• we met in Bangalore in 2007

Roles - Steven (15 seconds)

• over past 5 - 10 years:
  • we've been building immutable databases and running companies, respectively
  • so we'll be CTO and CEO, respectively
• also over past 5 years:
  • both returned to our home countries of Sweden and Canada
  • ...and started working on databases together

What is Endatabas? - Håkan (20 seconds)

• in early 2023, we decided to bootstrap Endatabas (or Endb for short)
  • "Endatabas" is literally "a database" in Swedish
  • Endb makes UX and ops very simple - the architecture does the heavy lifting
  • the best way to understand Endb is to experience it, so...
• after 8 months, we've produced a usable alpha -- we want you to try it!

Why Endb? - Håkan (20 seconds)

• "Why Endb? Why now?" it's the perfect time!
  • the 1970s dream of a database that can record anything, forever, can (finally) be realized
  • SQL is mature
  • thanks to the web, documents are second-nature
  • disk is infinite / SvC is commodity
  • light & adaptive indexing is possible
• (also, after 5 years of work, we have a design we're really happy with)

Steven (4 seconds)

• we want to build endb because we feel it's inevitable

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Removed from "Why Endb?"

Optionally:

• after 5 years of work, I'm excited about:
  1. lean
  2. document + sql - design we're happy with
• building a db is no one's first choice
  • but cobbling existing solutions are unsatisfying
  • timing is right to revisit great ideas from the 1970s and 1980s