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Modern Infrastructure Companies in the Cloud: Lessons Learned Building a $2 Billion Database Company from Scratch with Neo4j’s CEO Emil Eifrem

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Fit/User-Centricity : Open source, in and of itself, can be considered an act of user-centricity — but Neo4j took it a step further by not just developing a query language (Cypher), but by eventually releasing openCypher to the whole community. Growth : Open-source shares a lot of its DNA with product-led growth (PLG).

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The Best Programming Languages for Digital Marketers

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Marketing goals: accessing in-depth user data from your company’s database; running advanced queries on Google Analytics data, etc. SQL is a relatively simple language. It stands for “Structured Query Language,” but I like to call it “Excel on steroids”—it highlights its essence.

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