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Dev Ittycheria

Interim President and Chief Executive Officer, Mongodb

Search every verified Dev Ittycheria interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Dev Ittycheria returned as interim president and CEO of MongoDB in late September 2026, following the departure of former CEO Chirantan "CJ" Desai to Meta Platforms. In interviews with CNBC and Bloomberg, Ittycheria said the board asked him to step in and that the company was not in a rush to find a permanent successor. He discussed MongoDB's investor day, where the company raised its long-term growth guidance, and described MongoDB as well positioned for AI workloads because agents require access to fresh, real-time operational data, which he said MongoDB provides. In public appearances, Ittycheria has emphasized that AI models are only as good as the data they use and that JSON has become the standard format for AI systems, which he said benefits MongoDB as a pioneer in document databases. He also discussed MongoDB's strategy for helping customers modernize legacy applications, arguing that MongoDB would be a net beneficiary as companies move off older platforms, particularly given concerns about vulnerabilities in legacy systems. He described the CEO role as requiring clarity of strategy, assembling the right team, and ensuring the company has the resources to execute.

Recent appearances

  • Anthropic Under Threat | Cognition vs Factory | ElevenLabs Doubles Its Valuation to $22B

    October 08, 2026 · 📺 20VC with Harry Stebbings

    Dev Ittycheria is CEO of MongoDB, where he has led the company through its IPO and transformation into one of the world’s leading developer data platforms, with a market cap that has reached tens of billions of dollars. Jason Lemkin is one of the leading SaaS investors of the last decade with a portfolio including the likes of Algolia, Talkdesk, Owner, RevenueCat, Saleloft and more. Rory O’Driscoll is a General Partner @ Scale where he has led investments in category leaders such as Bill.com (BILL), Box (BOX), DocuSign (DOCU), and WalkMe (WKME), among others. -------------------------------…

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  • Why AI Models Are Only as Good as Your Data | Dev Ittycheria

    October 01, 2026 · 📺 MTS

    MongoDB Interim CEO Dev Ittycheria breaks down why the enterprise AI race is shifting from model benchmarks to data infrastructure, and how native document databases fit into the modern enterprise stack. He outlines industry-wide shifts toward agentic workloads, real-time context requirements, and why multi-cloud flexibility is non-negotiable for enterprise deployments. Check out our sponsor Lovable: ⁠https://lovable.dev.⁠ Turn ideas into software people love. -- ⁠https://x.com/dittycheria⁠ -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happ…

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  • MongoDB.local NYC 2026

    September 30, 2026 · 📺 MongoDB

    Learn more about MongoDB.local NYC: https://mdb.link/M-myyce8FAI-nyc Want to get hands-on with the tech you’re seeing today? Join us for a virtual workshop series on building agents: https://mdb.link/agents-workshops Experimenting with AI is easy. Tune in to explore what it takes to move AI past demos and into the real world—with real production, real constraints, and real decisions. Join interim President & CEO Dev Ittycheria to hear about the latest in MongoDB's intelligent data platform innovation, see it in action, and hear directly from the customers and partners putting it to work. Wa…

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  • Ken Griffindor School of Market Wizardry, Supper Intelligence, GDP per GW

    September 30, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

    00:01:26 Supper Intelligence 00:09:00 White House Accord Signature Tier List 00:21:22 𝕏 Timeline Reactions 00:32:59 Power, GD, and the AI Boom 00:43:21 A Warning about Model Welfare 00:57:28 Ken Griffindor School of Market Wizardry 01:08:24 Ali Golshan, Nvidia’s senior director of AI software and a former Gretel founder, discusses his work on AI security, safety, and infrastructure. He explains how the open-source OpenShell project, formal verification, and hardware-level controls can provide a trusted, full-stack environment for monitoring and containing autonomous AI agents. 01:20:43 Mike In…

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  • MongoDB Not in a Rush to Find CEO Successor, Ittycheria Says

    September 29, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Television

    MongoDB Interim President and CEO Dev Ittycheria discusses the outlook for the company after Meta Platforms tapped former CEO Chirantan “CJ” Desai to lead a new AI platform for enterprise customers. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." -------- More on Bloomberg Television and Markets Like this video? Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss any videos from Bloomberg Markets & Finance: https://tinyurl.com/ysu5b8a9 Visit http://www.bloomberg.com for business news & analysis, up-to-the-minute market data, features, profiles and more. Connect with Bloomberg Television on:…

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  • MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria: The board asked me to step in, and I agreed to do so

    September 29, 2026 · 📺 CNBC Television

    Dev Ittycheria, MongoDB Interim President and CEO, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss former CEO CJ Desai stepping down to join Meta Platforms as its chief enterprise platform officer, Investor Day, and more.

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  • MongoDB.local NYC 2025 Keynote Highlights

    October 01, 2025 · 📺 MongoDB

    Read more updates from .local NYC 2025: https://mdb.link/localNYCblog Learn more about: AMP ...

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  • MongoDB.local NYC 2025 Keynote & Post Show Interviews

    September 17, 2025 · 📺 MongoDB

    Learn more about .local NYC: https://mdb.link/LE8hUTNd2Go Sign-up for a free cluster → https://mdb.link/LE8hUTNd2Go-register ...

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  • Dev Ittycheria, MongoDB CEO: A Fortt Knox Update

    September 16, 2025 · 📺 Fortt Knox

    I speak with MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria about MongoDB.local NYC, modernizing applications, and the renewed importance of ...

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  • MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria on Q2 results: The opportunity in front of us is massive

    August 27, 2025 · 📺 CNBC Television

    Dev Ittycheria, MongoDB CEO, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the company's quarterly earnings results, who the company is taking ...

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  • MongoDB MDB Q2 2026 Earnings Call

    August 27, 2025 · 📺 Fyfull

    --------- MongoDB MDB Q2 2026 Earnings Call --------- In this video, we’ll cover the latest quarterly earnings results, key financial metrics, and business highlights from the most recent reporting period. 🔔 Don’t forget to subscribe and follow us on X for more updates: https://x.com/Fyfull2 Disclaimer: This video includes segments from official corporate earnings calls and presentations, used for educational and informational purposes under fair use (Section 107, U.S. Copyright Act). No affiliation or endorsement by the companies mentioned is implied. All content rights remain with their…

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  • MongoDB Q2 2026 Earnings Calll | Q2 2026 Earnings Conference Call | Q2 2026 Results

    August 27, 2025 · 📺 i101

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“I think the opportunity is more than just analytics but telling you where you're missing and all that. I think the opportunity for these companies is not just telling you what you're missing, but to help shape the content and create the content to help you solve that problem. If they can close the loop, that becomes a very compelling solution versus just telling you you're here, you're not here. This is what the othe”

“The interesting thing that we should also learn from this and having sold to developers the last 12 plus years is that there's not a lot of loyalty and developers are very quick to switch from one tool to another or frankly use multiple tools and I think what we're seeing is that developers are quick to find the shiny new toy. I think the question is what will Claude or Anthropic come out with next and what are the o”

“The main headline is Atlas. A lot of investors focus on Atlas and so we increased our long-term guide which is about a three-year outlook essentially from 20% plus to the mid-20s and obviously that is a pretty meaningful move for a long-term guide and that was well received. The overall business we said was going to grow at high teens, now we're saying it's 20% or plus. And by the way, those are not ceilings, those a”

“We heard from you that people said you know I don't want to always have to manage MongoDB myself. I just want to be able to consume it in a way that's easy for me to work with your technology. So we launched a cloud service. We launched that around 2016. I will tell you it was about one year before we went public. And when we went public, that business was only 2% of revenue. And people were highly skeptical that we ”

“MongoDB has always, I would say, been a contrarian thinker. And what I mean by that is that when we first launched as a company, we came up with this novel idea that you don't have to store all information in a table. In fact, it doesn't make sense to store information in a table because information and data is so complex and comes in variety of shapes and forms. And the document model we believe was a much more natu”

“The classic open source model where you get some part of the core free and then you pay for like say the adjacent features around it I think is somewhat challenging because I'll give you our example at MongoDB. We had an open-source product and we provided so anything that developers needed was free but any matching tooling and so on so forth was paid for. The challenge was like defining that paywall between what's f”

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