Supabase hit $5B by turning down million-dollar contracts. Here’s why.

Vibe coding has taken the tech manufacture by storm, and it’s not conscionable the Lovables and Replits of the satellite that are winning. The startups gathering the infrastructure down them are cashing successful too. 

Supabase, the open-source database platform that’s become the backend of prime for the vibe-coding world, raised $100 cardinal astatine a $5 billion valuation just months aft closing $200 cardinal at $2 billion. But co-founder and CEO Paul Copplestone has a astonishing strategy: helium keeps turning down million-dollar endeavor contracts from deep-pocketed but demanding customers. He’s betting alternatively that if helium sticks to his ain product vision, the satellite volition travel to him. So far, he’s been right.  

Today connected TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Julie Bort sat down with Copplestone to explore Supabase’s rise and what it means for vibe coding, developers and the database giants who person historically controlled this market. 

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