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Alec Mocatta

Alec Mocatta

Founder & CEO at Tably; data tools entrepreneur

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London, England, United Kingdom
Joined September 2025
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Summary

Serial founder focused on data and developer tools — Alec has repeatedly founded companies that intersect data, developer productivity, and distributed systems (Riva, Intelligent Spatial Positioning, Hadean, and now Tably). He currently leads Tably as CEO, positioning it as an AI‑native workspace to simplify data work for non‑technical knowledge workers. tably+2
Systems architect with deep distributed‑systems and Rust expertise — his role at Hadean as a founding technical lead and the technical choices highlighted for Tably (100% Rust, CRDTs, local‑first architecture) indicate strong low‑level systems, architecture and performance engineering skills. techcrunch+2
Active open‑source maintainer and contributor — Alec maintains many public repositories and Rust crates, showing consistent engagement with the developer community and a focus on tooling, serialization, and distributed programming primitives. github+1
Public thinker and communicator about product and data — he writes publicly (personal blog, Substack) and authors long‑form product essays/pitches that articulate a clear vision for changing how people work with data. mocatta+2

Work

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Writing

A Trillion‑Dollar Problem (Tably pitch / essay)

A long‑form pitch and product essay describing the market opportunity for Tably, the product vision (AI‑native data workspace), technical differentiators (Rust, CRDTs, local‑first architecture), go‑to‑market and traction metrics.

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The Tably Blog (Substack) & personal blog

Regular writing on product thinking, the future of data tooling, and other topics; includes posts on the personal site and the Tably Substack.

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Hobbies

Open‑source software, especially Rust and distributed systems; blogging and writing about product and data tooling. github+2