Nikhil Benesch
Nikhil Benesch is the Chief Technology Officer of turbopuffer, a vector and full-text search engine built on object storage. He has spent over a decade working on database systems, including roles as an early engineer at Cockroach Labs focused on distributed SQL and as CTO of Materialize, where he led development of a streaming database. At turbopuffer, he oversees the technical development of a search infrastructure designed to handle trillion-scale document workloads for AI applications, used by companies such as Anthropic, Cursor, and Notion.
“If you're spending $5 on TurboPuffer per user, but you're only charging your users $5 a month, the economics just don't work. But if we can bring that cost down by an order of magnitude, so you're only spending 50 cents a user on searches, suddenly you're able to build a product where you couldn't before.”
Source→“The reason folks are able to do vector search over the entire web on TurboPuffer is because we're based on object storage. So that's S3 or Google Cloud Storage, which is rock bottom storage prices”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.