When Eric Frenkiel started an engineering job at Facebook in 2010, he encountered one of the world's biggest databases: a stash of hundreds of millions of users' likes, messages, and photos. After just a year, Frenkiel realized that he could use his experience to build a better data storage system for companies less tech savvy than his employer. He and Nikita Shamgunov, another Facebook engineer, left the social network in February 2011 to create-bravado alert-"the world's fastest database," according to Frenkiel, 26. "People thought we were crazy because we left before Facebook went public," he says. "There we were, just two guys and a dog."
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