Eliot D. Horowitz

Eliot D. Horowitz is a distinguished American technology entrepreneur, engineer, and venture capitalist, best known as the co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer of MongoDB, a foundational technology in the NoSQL database movement. Born in 1982, Horowitz displayed an early and keen…

Key facts

Role: Co-founder & CTO (MongoDB); General Partner (Thrive Capital)
Nationality: American
Born: 1982

Notable quotes

"The original idea for MongoDB was really just an easier way to make web applications scale."

"We built MongoDB with the idea that data structures should be flexible, and that developers shouldn't have to define a rigid schema up front."

"When you have open source and a cloud service provider takes that and offers it as a service, they're not creating value for the original open source project. We felt that this was an unsustainable model."