“We partnered with Alibaba in China… the last thing AWS or Azure wanted was MongoDB to have a great partnership with the Chinese before we had a good one with them too.”
Revenue Builders · Why Better Technology Does Not Win Hyperscaler Partnerships with Alan Chhabra
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Partnered with Alibaba in China to build a strong China partnership for MongoDB, creating pressure on AWS to accelerate its own partnership.
Said nearby on the same subject
“We've now invested in, I think, eight companies where assets have been sourced from China ... we have not directly invested in China, but we've developed close relationships with local partners”
“They're spending money on a one-off engagement and it says paid partnership versus you can post unlimited times about your company and it doesn't say paid partnership so the algorithm doesn't flag it.”