MongoDB, Inc.
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MongoDB, Inc.
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Company History
Founded 2007 in New York, New York, United States
Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz, and Kevin Ryan founded the company now known as MongoDB in 2007 as 10gen. The team originally explored a cloud platform, then focused on the database layer after building the document database that became MongoDB.
Dwight Merriman helped create MongoDB after experiencing the scale limits and rigidity of existing database systems.
Eliot Horowitz was central to the engineering and product direction of MongoDB's early document database.
Kevin Ryan helped found the company that became MongoDB after building and scaling earlier internet businesses.
Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz, and Kevin Ryan founded the company later known as MongoDB.
The company shifted from a broader platform idea to focus on the MongoDB database.
MongoDB Atlas introduced the company's managed cloud database platform.
MongoDB became a public company.
Chirantan "CJ" Desai was appointed president and chief executive officer.
MongoDB reported 23% revenue growth for fiscal 2026.
The company (originally called 10gen) was founded in 2007 by Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz, and Kevin Ryan in New York City.
Frustration. The founders had previously built DoubleClick (which they sold to Google for $3.1 billion). At DoubleClick, they constantly struggled with the rigid limitations of traditional, relational databases (like Oracle). They built MongoDB to handle massive, unstructured data efficiently.
The name comes from the word 'humongous,' reflecting the database's primary design goal: to store and process massive amounts of data across distributed systems easily.
For decades, relational databases (SQL) organized data into rigid tables (rows and columns). MongoDB pioneered NoSQL (document-based) databases, organizing data into flexible JSON-like documents, drastically speeding up how fast developers could build new applications.
MongoDB executed a highly successful IPO in 2017. Wall Street immediately recognized the massive threat MongoDB posed to legacy database giants like Oracle and IBM, sending the stock price soaring over the following years.