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Supabase · B2B · database for developers

Ship a new feature every single day

Became the default database for most major website builders

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What they did

Supabase, a Chapter One pre-seed investment, ships a new feature every day and leaned into AI website builders.

What happened

Became the database of record for most major website builders.

In their words

How a Single Paywall Experiment Generated $50M – Jeff Morris, Chapter One, Ex-Tinder

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David Barnard… but we can have a discussion around these. It's kind of a loose thing I've started putting here at the end of the podcast. The questions are more focused on operators. So I'll ask this in a different way for you, but the question is generally, what's your biggest win of the year? So for you, maybe it's a portfolio company, a biggest win a portfolio company had, or just something you think people could learn from that you saw in the past year?

Jeff MorrisYeah, I think for us on the investment side, we were pre-seed investors in Superbase, which I think the company's done an incredible job of really leaning into what's happening in AI and becoming the database of record for most major website builders. They've done so by being extremely developer... The speed at which they ship features, they ship a new feature every single day. And so I think they set the bar for what product velocity should look like and just appears like they won't slow down. Personally, I think the thing I've loved doing is I've gone back to even as a VC designing new products. And so we have a incubation, which we'll be able to share next year, which has been a ton of fun to work on because it's been back in the Figma files and getting really deep in product design, which as an investor helps me stay sharp.

Jeff MorrisI don't know how I could do this job and not still build things and create things. And then we have another product that we're releasing in the next couple of weeks, which is more like a venture scale product, but it's just something that we're having a lot of fun building. So I think the lesson for me is all my energy that I get is through building things and building products and investing, but I really need to build things to be happy as an …

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