S12 Bonus: The App Is Dead, Long Live the Outcome: Why Autonomous AI Agents Are Rewriting Data Infrastructure and Transforming PostgreSQL Into a Dynamic Scratch Pad with Ajay Kulkarni, Founder & CEO of Tiger Data

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🗓️ 2 July 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Ajay Kulkarni grew up in tech, as his father was a tech entrepreneur selling PC's in the early 80's. He went to college in MIT, and eventually founded a startup that was acquired by GroupMe (while it was being acquired by Skype... while they were being acquired by Microsoft). He's always been attracted to building things, so startups are right up his alley. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 young kids. He is a big exercise guy... he loves to run, swim and track his steps. Additionally, he loves music - to listen, and to play guitar, piano and drums. Ajay and his co-founder met 30 years ago at MIT. They reconnected after years of doing their own thing, starting to dig into the iOT world. In doing this, they built a database because they the best solution to store this data... and in doing so, they unlocked their next venture out of this necessity. This is the creation story of Tiger Data. Our Sponsors: * Check out Cash App and use my code CASHAPP10 for a great deal: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/mt82fpxl #CashAppPod. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. See terms and conditions at https://cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement. Cash App Green, overdraft coverage, borrow, cash back offers and promotions provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit http://cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. * Check out Plaud AI and use my code CODESTORY for a great deal: https://plaud.ai Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by The Built. A new podcast from the guys behind Cincera,
0:04.7	Michael Sullivan and Ian Myers. They built their company by figuring out clever solutions to a few
0:09.8	important ad tech problems in their industry. And that's exactly what this show is about.
0:15.2	Mike and Ian interview some of the smartest tech minds in the biz to hear about how they
0:19.8	identified opportunities, solve their hardest challenges, and grew their businesses in the biz to hear about how they identified opportunities, solve their
0:21.8	hardest challenges, and grew their businesses in the process.
0:26.1	Listen to The Build with Michael Sullivan, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:34.6	2015, we're building an IOT platform. We needed a database to store all the sensor data we were collecting from our customers over 100,000 devices.
0:44.3	One of my engineers who's still at the company, 12 years later, was like, hey, I think I could build this and it'll take me a month.
0:52.3	And I'm like, cool, you're an optimistic engineer.
0:55.3	It'll probably take three months.
1:03.2	Twelve months later, 12 months later, we had this database and that was the MVP.
1:05.6	It was really a post-rest extension.
1:14.4	And as soon as we launched, as soon as we launched it, we had more press in the first three weeks than we had in the last year and a half of the IOT platform.
1:17.8	Hey, I'm my Jay, co-founder CEO of Tiger Data.
1:22.7	This is Code Story.
1:26.5	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
2:01.8	Six months moonlighting. There's nothing on the backhand. Who share what it takes to change in industry. I don't exactly know what to do next. She took many goes to get right. Who built the teams that have their back. The company is its people. The teams help each other achieve more. Most proud of our team. Keeping scalability top of mind. Yes, we've been fighting it as we grow. Total waste of time. The stories you don't read in the headlines. It's not an easy thing to achieve, my view. Took off the shelf and dusted it off and tried it again. To ride the ups and downs of the startup life. You need to really want it.
2:03.2	It's not just about technology.
2:05.3	All this and more on Code Story.
2:08.2	I'm your host, Noah Lab partner.
2:14.0	And today, how a Jay Kulkarni created Postgres for sensor and machine data,
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