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MongoDB’s Dwight Merriman: From DoubleClick to Database

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Christine Hall
Nov 9, 2014

“We had a R&D group there that we started,” he said. “Started by my boss there, Kevin O???Conner. That group and his kind of vision for how you innovate on things is really what got me interested in trying to be creative, trying to come up with ideas either for products or businesses, whether it’s inside an existing big company or starting something new that is a startup. So, that was really the catalyst.”

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