Emil Eifrem sketched what today is known as the property graph model on a flight to Mumbai in 2000. As the CEO and Co-Founder of Neo4j, and a co-author of the O'Reilly book Graph Databases, he's devoted his professional life to building, innovating and evangelizing graph databases.
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Introducing Emil Eifrem and Neo4J ā 00:06
What insights led to the idea of graph databases? ā 00:42
Company's problem working with databases, and insights ā 3:00
As real world becomes more connected, data will be ā 5:15
Parallels between graph data and the brain ā 7:02
How did you educate early community and users? ā 9:49
What were the first few months and years like? ā 12:23
Category creation, minimizing friction, "non-lame" marketing ā 15:30
Neo4Jās content creation and community efforts ā 18:00
Hiring decisions and building the company ā 19:15
Moving from Sweden to Silicon Valley ā 20:40
How has business model has evolved? ā 22:50
How has graph database community evolved? ā 28:30
What advice would you give on category creation? ā 31:55
How to balance company and open-source ā 38:10
Future of the company ā 41:00
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