If there's no price tag mentioned, it's likely not generational wealth.

Very much doubt it’s generational wealth. I’m not sure how much people think open source companies are worth, but the path to VC-scale profitability is incredibly rare.

My guess is that Amazon wants official hosted versions and doesn’t want to go through something like the Redis fiasco with licensing. In that case, they ended up having to support their own development anyway (with Valkey), so they might as well just buy the team.

DuckDB team probably gets a nice package and pay bump, but it’s really unlikely they’re getting hundreds of millions from this.