Supabase Hit $5b By Turning Down Million-dollar Contracts. Here’s Why.

Vibe coding has taken nan tech manufacture by storm, and it’s not conscionable the Lovables and Replits of nan world that are winning. The startups building nan infrastructure down them are cashing successful too. 

Supabase, nan open-source database platform that’s become nan backend of prime for nan vibe-coding world, raised $100 cardinal astatine a $5 billion valuation just months aft closing $200 cardinal at $2 billion. But co-founder and CEO Paul Copplestone has a astonishing strategy: he keeps turning down million-dollar endeavor contracts from deep-pocketed but demanding customers. He’s betting alternatively that if he sticks to his ain product vision, nan world will travel to him. So far, he’s been right.  

Today connected TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Julie Bort sat down with Copplestone to explore Supabase’s rise and what it intends for vibe coding, developers and the database giants who person historically controlled this market. 

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