“MongoDB is really good when you're vibe coding, especially when you're building a vibe coding platform”
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MongoDB
By MongoDB, Inc.
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“Carlos Delator who used to be the CRO of MongoDB”
“She's advised dozens of companies on growth, including Superhuman, MongoDB, Netlify, SimilarWeb, Sanity, Maze, so many more.”
“I had to go learn MongoDB to get data out of a database.”
“Elena has worked at or advised companies like Miro amplitude SurveyMonkey mongodb netlify and a dozen others”
“we looked at it at mongodb it was very much true”
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