{"podcast":{"title":"Dev Propulsion Labs","slug":"dev-propulsion-labs-6704290","podcast_index_feed_id":6704290,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/dpl/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/dpl","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/dpl/20231130_121111_9325ba0ccf1fa632d70f120479a001f9.jpg","author":"Evil Martians","episode_count":36,"summary":"Dev Propulsion Labs is a podcast about the business of developer tools, hosted by Victoria Melnikova. Victoria is a business and go-to-market expert for developer tools and AI, working with 40+ early-stage startups a year as Head of New Business at Evil Martians. She sits down face-to-face in San Francisco with founders behind companies like Cursor, Sentry, Supabase, Resend, CodeRabbit, WorkOS, Elixir, and PlanetScale to talk about what actually makes developer-focused businesses work. Dev Propulsion Labs is produced by Evil Martians, a design and engineering consultancy for developer tools, AI, and cybersecurity startups. Enjoyed by 45K+ listeners.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290"},"episode":{"title":"Stas Kelvich, co-founder of Neon: $1B acquisition and databases for agents | Evil Martians podcast","slug":"stas-kelvich-co-founder-of-neon-1b-acquisition-and-databases-for-agents-evil-martians-podcast","published_at":"2026-03-10T02:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/stas-kelvich-co-founder-of-neon-1b-acquisition-and-databases-for-agents-evil-martians-podcast","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/dpl/2612450","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/239660/2612450/dpl/2026_03_09_15_02_54_83dff46d-1902-403e-9e82-1829aeb6345c.mp3","summary":"Stas Kelvich, co-founder of Neon: $1B Databricks deal and the agent era | Evil Martians podcast In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Stas Kelvich, co-founder of Neon and member of technical staff at Databricks, shares how he went from quantum field theory to becoming a key Postgres contributor, why Neon bet on building their own cloud instead of just the database, and how the $1B Databricks acquisition closed in 30 days with 90 lawyers. He explains why Neon skipped sharding, how Replit's agents stress-tested their infrastructure overnight, and why the current moment is a gold rush for builders who stay in the loop. Victoria Melnikova is a business and go-to-market expert for developer tools and AI, and host of Dev Propulsion Labs. She works with 40+ early-stage startups a year as Head of New Business at Evil Martians. https://x.com/vmelnikova_en Evil Martians is a design and engineering consultancy for developer tools, AI, and cybersecurity startups. https://evilmartians.com/ Recorded at Chroma. Vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search. Develop locally and scale to petabytes in the cloud backed by object storage. Serverless search and retrieval that is fast, cheap, and reliable. https://www.trychroma.com 00:00 Intro 00:34 Who is Stas Kelvich? 01:42 From quantum physics to software engineering 05:10 How Stas became a key Postgres contributor 06:08 Early career: Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and Postgres 06:57 Why databases as a field keep pulling him in 09:47 The early days of Neon and the co-founder origin story 13:42 Key bets: building the cloud, separating storage and compute 16:38 Enterprise vs. product-led growth strategy 18:54 Why Neon didn't solve sharding — and why that was right 23:03 Designing for the agent era without planning for it 25:44 How Replit's agents…","meta_description":"Stas Kelvich, co-founder of Neon: $1B Databricks deal and the agent era | Evil Martians podcast In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, Stas Kelvich, co-f…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3523,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/episodes/stas-kelvich-co-founder-of-neon-1b-acquisition-and-databases-for-agents-evil-martians-podcast/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/stas-kelvich-co-founder-of-neon-1b-acquisition-and-databases-for-agents-evil-martians-podcast.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}