Eliot Horowitz is a founder and the former chief technology officer of

MongoDB Inc. MongoDB, Inc. is an American software company that develops and provides commercial support for the source-available database MongoDB, a NoSQL database that stores data in JSON-like documents with flexible schemas. History The company was first ...

, a software company that develops and provides commercial support for the open source

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database

MongoDB MongoDB is a source-available cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with optional schemas. MongoDB is developed by MongoDB Inc. and licensed under the Serve ...

. Horowitz is the founder and current CEO of Viam, a robotics software

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Career

Horowitz attended

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Provide ...

where he received a B.S. in Computer Science. After college, he joined

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as a software developer in its R&D group. He then left to start up ShopWiki, a search engine for e-commerce, with the CTO of DoubleClick,

Dwight Merriman Dwight Merriman is an American Internet executive, racing driver, and entrepreneur in New York City's Silicon Alley. Best known for co-founding DoubleClick with Kevin O'Connor and serving as its CTO for 10 years, Merriman currently serves as t ...

. He developed the crawling and data extraction algorithm for ShopWiki. In 2006,

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selected Eliot as one of its Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under Age 25. In 2007, Horowitz formed 10gen with Kevin P. Ryan and Merriman, and started writing the core code base for

, an open source database. Its first public release came two years later in 2009. MongoDB has become widely used to build high-performance systems by companies. 10gen was later renamed MongoDB Inc. in 2013, and it was listed on

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in 2017. It has a

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of $7.2 billion by 2019. In March 2020, after nearly 13 years with the company, Horowitz announced he would step down as chief technology officer, as well as from MongoDB's board of directors, effective July 10, 2020. He continues to serve as technical advisor to MongoDB. In 2020, Horowitz founde
Viam Robotics
to create a general-purpose development platform for robotics and enable robotics businesses to get to market faster while taking advantage of cloud services like AI, machine learning and advanced analytics.

References

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