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RethinkDB Founder Looking for Technical Cofounder (2009)

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That's a long time ago. I've been working on my own open source project for 2 and a half years. It's good too know that these kinds of projects take a while to gain traction.

I first heard about RethinkDB in 2015. I gave it a really thorough tryout and I liked it.

It's the first database that makes NoSQL worthwhile for me - I love how easy it is to configure and scale. Also the query language is really clean and simple - You can learn it as you go along (unlike SQL, you don't have to know it all up-front in order to use it efficiently).

I'm genuinely confused: how can you develop a new database without a technical co-founder? I mean they clearly pulled it off but how did they even start?

I believe Slava was looking for an extra technical cofounder. He is extremely technical himself. Eventually it was him and two other people - Mike, who is sort of semi-technical (he doesn't write the DB afaik, but works on many other things) and Lief, who is a very technical guy, but moved on fairly early.

Source: I slept on the floor of their home/office for a few nights in '09.

I was the first employee at Rethink, very much not an "I just need a technical cofounder post" but a let's fill out our founding team with even more technical expertise.

The guy who wrote that post definitely has technical skills.

I think they were both technical (one of them has a CS degree and started a PhD program, couldn't see the LinkedIn for the other)

So did they pick anyone? This article from almost 1 year later only lists two founders (both from Stony Brook) so it seems like they didn't... http://primary.slate.com/articles/business/small_business/20...

Interesting way to find talent. To answer their interview test, the answer is: "It depends on that the key size is on each 'page' of the bayer tree".

the founder was on the Changelog recently. Very interesting to listen to.

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