About this episode
Ajay Kulkarni discusses his journey to becoming a CEO and the impact of founder values on company culture, alongside insights into database interactions and the API movement.
Ajay Kulkarni from Tiger Data (Co-founder/CEO) is on the pod this week with Adam. He asked him to get vulnerable and trace his path to becoming a CEO. They dig into the themes that have shaped his career, and explore how founder values end up forming company culture (whether you intend them to or not). From his enterprise days to building Timescale (and the rename to Tiger Data), we cover the whole journey — even the haters, because haters gonna hate. Here's where it gets really interesting: Agents in the database! Not the hype. The real thing baby. They get into how fast you can go from idea to shipped these days, what it actually means to talk to your database, and the whole API/CLI/MCP/Skills movement.
People in this episode
Host: Adam
Guest: Ajay Kulkarni
Topics covered
- CEO journey
- company culture
- founder values
- database interaction
- API movement
- entrepreneurship
Keywords
- CEO
- company culture
- founder values
- database
- API
- entrepreneurship
- Timescale
- Tiger Data
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Tiger Data, Timescale
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