Marcus Eagan
Hey, I'm obsessed with the future and I am building a few tools to secure it.
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The future is open source, otherwise we're fucked. As a species, we have embarked on a largely stochastic, non-deterministic, and unauditable future with the rapid proliferation of AI. That's why the open source vector database Weaviate is so important. I am donating money to an array of open source oriented organizations personally, through my company, and through a family desk, investing in tons of open source startups, and sponsoring several organizations.
I've contributed to dozens of open source projects from Apache, CNCF, and Google and am 1 of 94 maintainers globally of Apache Solr, a highly scalable and performant search engine. Ironically, I was far more active five years ago than I am today. I will never understand why I was nominated a committer in 2023 vs years ago, but it's not important. I am happy to support them in whatever way I can.
I've invested in over 30 startups, representing opver $400 Million in revenue.
I advise companies like Weaviate and MongoDB where I introduced platform features like Vector Search and Search Nodes.
- Twitter @MarcusForPeace
- GitHub @marcussorealheis
Track Record
- Worked at two companies that were acquired and one that's about to get acquired for a billy
- Started a company that is now owned by a public company
- Transformed and defined the most promising lines of business for MongoDB since Atlas Search and Vector Search
- Apache and CNCF committer
- Grinnell College troublemaker like Noyce
- Michigan School of Information Graduate School dropout
- So many hits
- So many misses
Portfolio News
- Weaviate Raises $50 Million from Index Ventures
- ChipperCash overcame bias
- BuildBuddy rings closing bell
- Budibase Raises $7 Mill Seed
- Four OTE players to NBA
- Wing Cloud announces $20 Mill Seed
Marcus News
I've been featured in a lot of blogs/news sites lately. Here's a list of some recent publications where I appeared so you can get a sense of who I am.
- A Q&A with MongoDB's Marcus Eagan on Developer Mentorship & Building a More Equitable World
- Businesses Develop Apps Faster with MongoDB Atlas Search
- How AWS and MongoDB collaborate to unlock the power of Apache Lucene
- 2022 Developer Searchlight Honorees
- Freedom from the Throes of Tables and Rows and Legacy Product Management
- Tech Takes On Its Racist Terminology