Episode

Why MotherDuck refuses to fork DuckDB

Podcast: The New Stack Podcast
Published: May 27, 2026
Duration seconds: 1663
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Summary

At a recent MCP developer summit, The New Stack spoke with Till Döhmen, AI lead at MotherDuck, about the company’s growing role in the evolving DuckDB ecosystem. Backed by investors including Tomasz Tunguz, MotherDuck is commercializing the open-source analytical database DuckDB while also expanding how employees interact with data through AI agents rather than traditional dashboards.