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# Hello, World! Quack. Quack.

We’re MotherDuck, a software company founded by a passionate flock of experienced data geeks. We’ve worked as leaders for some of the greatest companies in data: Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Google BigQuery, Elastic, SingleStore, Meta.  We now think it’s time to challenge the status quo.

We come together based on a set of shared beliefs:
* Scale out is expensive and slow. Let’s scale up.
* Big Data is dead. Long live easy data.
* Your laptop is faster than your data warehouse. Why wait for the cloud?
* DuckDB [slaps](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slaps). Let’s supercharge it.


![motherduck_team.jpg](https://motherduck-com-web-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/img/motherduck_team_34b2dcac8d.jpg)

We’ve partnered with the amazing DuckDB team and community to build the Next New Thing™ in data.

[Stay in touch](https://motherduck.com/#stay-in-touch) with us to hear about what we’re working on and [reach out](mailto:info@motherduck.com) if you want to chat. Of course, we also hang out on the [DuckDB Discord](https://discord.com/invite/tcvwpjfnZx) server.