Why Everyone Is About To Have Their Own Database

Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase, explains how the open-source Postgres platform grew to 13 million users and nearly 50 million databases by becoming the default backend for agents and a new class of non-engineer builders. He covers the shift from dashboard to API to code-first products, personal databases that individuals own, scaling Postgres to billions of databases, and designing tools so agents can recover from errors on their own.