It (and tech innovation in general) is also driven by people scratching their own itch. That's where we started. And we actually didn't start as a DB company, b

It (and tech innovation in general) is also driven by people scratching their own itch. That's where we started. And we actually didn't start as a DB company, but as an IoT company storing lots of sensor data. We needed a certain kind of time-series database, tried several options, but nothing worked. So we built our own, and then realized other people needed it as well. And we picked Postgres as our starting point exactly because it wasn't new and shiny but boring and it worked. More on this here [1] if you're interested. [1] https://blog.timescale.com/when-boring-is-awesome-building-a-scalable-time-series-database-on-postgresql-2900ea453ee2 https://blog.timescale.com/when-boring-is-awesome-building-a...