Supabase CEO on 50M Databases and Agents Driving the Next Wave of Software
Y Combinator · youtube · 2026-10-30
Y Combinator's Lightcone podcast hosts Supabase co-founder and CEO Paul Copplestone.
Key points:
- Since its YC Summer 2020 batch, Supabase has grown to 13 million users, 50+ million databases under management, and 4x revenue growth
- He argues everyone will soon write their own software, billions will have personal databases, and agents are driving much of the demand
- Topics include 'Builders' vs traditional devs, personalized apps and data ownership, agent-first design and evals, internal AI adoption and dogfooding
- Also covers the future of coding and opening up more entrepreneurship
Related event: Supabase Hits 13M Users, 70% of New Activity from AI Agents(3 posts)→
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