In this episode of the Lightcone, the hosts sit down with Paul Copplestone, co-founder and CEO of Supabase. Since starting in the YC summer batch of 2020, the company has exploded to 13 million users and over 50 million databases under management. Supabase is now positioning for a future where everyone can write their own software, billions have access to personal databases and agents are driving much of the demand.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:18 Growth and 4x Revenue
02:35 Three Eras of Supabase
04:34 “Builders” vs. Traditional Devs
08:42 Personalized Apps
12:12 Personal Databases & Data Ownership
15:56 Scaling to Billions
17:58 AI Adoption At Supabase
19:58 Lessons Learned Along The Way
27:29 Building For Personal Agents, Dogfooding
30:01 Agent-First Design and Evals
38:42 The Future Of Coding
42:36 Opening Up More Entrepreneurship + Outro
