A sort of roadmap in our minds was way too big to actually realize in practice with the kind of resources that we had.

We got seed funding, we got a little over a million seed funding.

Then it was a little bit more practicable, like a lot of the kinds of ideas we could start to put into practice.

But there were so much, right?

So we were trying to be a bit driven by customer needs as well.

So we had one early customer that drove, like, us trying to get very big graphs and less

on the sort of incremental, like how do you actually create those graphs in the first place?

I'm Gavin Mendobleason. I'm the CTO of TerminusDB.

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I'm your host, Noah Lappart, and today how Gavin Mendo Gleason built a world-class tool with Git-like collaboration centered around data workflows.

All this and more. OnCote Story. When asked what he does for fun, Gavin Mendobleason likes to program

for fun. He built stuff in his spare time as tech dominates his life.

But outside of tech, he has two daughters and his family enjoys spending time outdoors,

specifically in the Alps. At Trinity College in Dublin, Gavin and his teammates were working on a

project that required the storage and relation between loads of complex datasets.

During this project, they decided to create a better kind of database

to help solve these sorts of problems.

This is the creation story of Terminus DB.

Terminus TB actually got started at Trinity College Dublin, some number of years back, I think it's like six years ago now. And we were working on a project about long-scale historical research, trying to look at patterns in history and look at the pattern of civilizations,

civilizational collapse, disasters, and the responses to those, and what it takes to keep a society around.

So Terminus was actually just a, its genesis comes in us trying to figure out how to store

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