Who Founded MongoDB?

Dwight Merriman co-founded 10gen (now MongoDB) in 2007 after scaling problems with relational databases at DoubleClick shaped his view of how application data should be stored. He served as MongoDB's early CEO and later chairman, and also co-founded Business Insider and Gilt Groupe with Kevin Ryan.

Dwight Merriman was born in 1968 in New York City. Education: Miami University.

Merriman was born on August 5, 1968. He co-founded DoubleClick with Kevin O'Connor and was its chief technology officer for 10 years. He was previously chairman of MongoDB and sits on its board.

Eliot Horowitz co-founded MongoDB (originally 10gen) in 2007. Frustrated by the severe limitations of traditional relational databases (like MySQL) when attempting to build highly scalable web applications, he helped architect a completely new 'document-based' database model. He served as Chief Technology Officer for over a decade, building MongoDB into the absolute default database for modern cloud applications.

Eliot Horowitz was born in 1981. Education: Brown University.

Horowitz was chief technology officer of MongoDB. He later founded the robotics software company Viam, where he is chief executive.

Kevin Ryan co-founded 10gen in 2007 alongside Merriman and Horowitz, contributing business leadership and early company-building experience. He has co-founded several other New York companies, including Business Insider, Gilt Groupe, and Zola.

Education: Yale University; INSEAD; Trumbull College.

Kevin P. Ryan was an executive at DoubleClick from 1996 to 2005. He co-founded the venture firm AlleyCorp in 2008, through which he also started Gilt Groupe and Business Insider. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).