I believe Slava was looking for an extra technical cofounder. He is extremely technical himself. Eventually it was him and two other people - Mike, who is sort

I believe Slava was looking for an extra technical cofounder. He is extremely technical himself. Eventually it was him and two other people - Mike, who is sort of semi-technical (he doesn't write the DB afaik, but works on many other things) and Lief, who is a very technical guy, but moved on fairly early. Source: I slept on the floor of their home/office for a few nights in '09.