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Head of produck and co-founder at MotherDuck here. Happy to answer any questions!

One minor correction on the title. While we're partners with DuckDB, and they're shareholders in MotherDuck, it is MotherDuck who raised the money, not DuckDB. On the plus side, we avoid the ethical dillemma of many OSS companies associated with being open-core - DuckDB is open, MotherDuck is closed (although contributing to open).

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Do you actually call yourself the produck team?

ryan (co-founder) here.

calling ourselves motherduck means we can either embrace the duck, or shy away from it. we've embraced it.

tino's board slides do refer to it as the Produck team :-)

So is there is there any fowl play or competition with Marvin the Duck over at Prefect?

is there any other way to spell it?

wait @tino, maybe we should call our support team the Pro Ducks team.

More serious question: how are you positioning MotherDuck in terms of Cloud Data Warehouse versus Analytics tool?

I think we are much more than an analytics tool, but we don't yet have all the bells and whistles of the modern CDW. We think of ourselves as a new type of data warehouse - some things are different, but many things are the same.

We actually just published a new produck page that talks about how we see ourselves at [0].

[0] https://motherduck.com/product/

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