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Published · transcript-backedSimon Hørup Eskildsen: belief
12 Mar 2026 Latent Space Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Hørup Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
“You know, Uhhuh like, it’s like the way I think about, it’s like I have to earn a return on whatever the clouds charge me and then my customers have to earn a return on that.”
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- Simon Hørup Eskildsen
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- 12 Mar 2026
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- Latent Space
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…Which is like they, I mean, notion is a database company. They could have done this themselves. They, they do lots of database engineering themselves. How do you even get in the door? Like Yeah, just like talk through that kind of. Last time I was in San Francisco, I was talking to one of the engineers actually, who, who was one of our champions, um, at, AT Notion. And they were, they were just trying to make sure that the, you know, per user cost matched the economics that they needed. You know, Uhhuh like, it’s like the way I think about, it’s like I have to earn a return on whatever the clouds charge me and then my customers have to earn a return on that. And it’s like very simple, right? And so there has to be gross margin all the way up and that’s how you build the product. And so then our customers have to make the right set of trade off the turbo Puffer makes, and if they’re happy with that, that’s great. Do you feel like you’re competing with build internally versus buy or buy versus buy?…
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