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Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:25 Harry Stebbings Listen, I want to start with Databricks now at a hundred billion dollars worth more than Snowflake.
- ▶ 2:22 unnamed speaker Databricks, I mean, if you'd said five years ago, there's going to be a hundred billion dollar market cap private company, you'd be like, no way. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:15 Harry Stebbings There's an interesting question to be had here, which is given what we've seen with Figma, Core, Weave, and Circle, if you had the likes of Canva and Databricks go out, they're better. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:51 Jason Lemkin If Databricks IPO's next year at two hundred billion, which makes sense because that's the implicit 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:06 unnamed speaker Individual investors to access those returns might have meant some individual investors would have got the Databricks exposure that Andreessen got. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:27 unnamed speaker But the point is, it comes right back to the Databricks discussion.
- ▶ 1:09:17 unnamed speaker Because literally every discussion we've had starting with Databricks all the way through the code is how long can you take the trend to the bank?
20Sales: $0-$3.7BN: The Databricks CRO's Playbook to Build the Fastest GTM Engine in SaaS History | How Databricks Beat Snowflake | How To Build a Sales Org of 5,000 and Close $190M Deals with Ron Gabrisko
- ▶ 0:06 Harry Stebbings On the show, we have Ron Gabrisco, CRO at Databricks, which he joined in 2016. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:22 Harry Stebbings I've got to start, you just mentioned before this how Ben Horowitz brought you into Databricks. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:42 unnamed speaker Back then he was like, when I joined the company, they were kind of transitioning to him as the CEO. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:21 unnamed speaker That was one of the things that really was exciting to me coming into Databricks was, hey, I get to help build the playbook, build the culture, all those kind of things.
- ▶ 10:57 Harry Stebbings And you join, and you start the sales process with Databrace. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:27 unnamed speaker I actually think it was one of the smartest things we did at Databricks, was we priced based on consumption. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:37 unnamed speaker I didn't go vertical at Databricks until we were probably five hundred million plus, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:53 unnamed speaker Like Databricks is very engineering. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:14 unnamed speaker Like eventually, like somebody's like, Hey, I'm a startup person. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:16 Harry Stebbings What have been your biggest lessons on building a successful leadership team with Databricks? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:05 unnamed speaker How would they get the most value out of Databricks?
- ▶ 56:33 Harry Stebbings Um, when you look at the different stages of the company, what was the hardest? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:10 Harry Stebbings Is that before you used to have two or three competitors, Databrace and Snowflake, say, now there's 15 competitors for everything. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:52 unnamed speaker We just started Databricks India Academy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:25 unnamed speaker Get that spouse where they're like, wow, Databricks is amazing company and you got to make sure you go next year. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:34 unnamed speaker I mean, I'm all in on Databricks. 6 times in the scene
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:49 Harry Stebbings Stripe in FinTech, data breaks in data, open AI in AI.
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:40 Harry Stebbings To Databricks or Stripe or one of the big boys going out. 5 times in the scene
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:18:15 Larry Aschebrook You know, the, the, the high flyers, you have, um, companies like Fanatics, Wiz, um, Databricks, um, uh, Turo, the Airbnb of cars, um, like Monzo, companies like that, where there's, you've already decided those are your core positions,…
- ▶ 1:25:23 Larry Aschebrook Same with Databricks.
Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:16 Harry Stebbings The question for me is, does this very positive response across the board with the IPOs that we've seen, not does it lead to the window opening more, I think we all agree it does, is does it lead to the window opening to Databricks, to…
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:17 Jason Lemkin Implementation right after Databricks bought its own Postgres database company Neon for a billion. 5 times in the scene
20Sales: From $2M ARR to $40M ARR: The Playbook | How to Use AI To Supercharge Your Sales Team | Why Pipeline Reviews are BS | The Sales Call Script that Closes 99% of Prospects and How to Hire the Best Sales Reps with Kyle Norton, CRO @ Owner
- ▶ 10:59 Harry Stebbings So another example would be you came out of an incredible sales division at Databricks or at wherever you name it, and you've got the best mafia of knowledge from 500 salespeople.
- ▶ 13:09 Kyle Norton So if you're Databricks, you might have great craft, but you probably need really specific expertise, or they're going to have a hard time getting up to speed because it's a highly technical product.
Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:58 Harry Stebbings Stripe, Databricks, Anthropic, OpenAI can.
- ▶ 31:55 Rory O'Driscoll Above sixty five billion in the next five or seven years, then the people who bought Stripe, SpaceX, Databricks, OpenAI and Antropic are screwed.
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:29:25 Harry Stebbings And what I mean by that is, if you're the Collison's, if you're Ali at Databricks, if you're Elon at SpaceX, you don't need to go public today.
Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:12 Bucky Moore And that if you look back five or seven years ago, we would be talking about companies like Databricks or Snowflake or, or even DoorDash on the consumer side as sort of the, the hallmarks of venture success.
Plural Partner, Taavet Hinrikus: Why Founders Will Realise Multi-Stage Funds Damage Seed Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:19 Harry Stebbings And all that matters is it could be the next Databricks.
a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:10 unnamed speaker Databricks.
- ▶ 25:41 unnamed speaker I mean, look, they found Databricks, and they've done amazingly well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:55 Jason Lemkin And so they can put this on a spreadsheet and they're like, you know, Databricks was twenty seven billion in 20, 21.
- ▶ 33:18 unnamed speaker Databricks.
- ▶ 1:04:22 unnamed speaker And so the only thing that's, so the real question is, does a Stripe, a Databricks, an OpenAI, IPO, does the cavalry come back quickly enough
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 49:37 Harry Stebbings When you look at Stripe, when you look at Databricks.
Mitchell Green, Founder @ Lead Edge Capital: Why Traditional VC is Broken · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:33 Mitchell Green The good companies, the Grafana Labs, the Databricks, like, they have so much money.
Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:35 Andrew Feldman Databricks certainly shown that, right?
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:44 Peter Singlehurst We're shareholders in Databricks.
- ▶ 38:04 Peter Singlehurst I think you're starting to see the evolution of these, these very large company facilitated, uh, secondary rounds, um, Stripe, Databricks. 2 times in the scene
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:16 Sridhar Ramaswamy Obviously, it's like, Databricks has come up in the last five years as a very credible player in the data space. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:12 Harry Stebbings Being a super late stage private today, like Databricks, or being a public company like Snowflake? 6 times in the scene
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:47 Harry Stebbings You've got Stripe, you've got Databricks, you've got SpaceX, you've got Starlink, you've got all these companies, which, but they didn't need to go
Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:14 Harry Stebbings You don't need to IPO, as we're seeing with, you know, Stripe, Databricks, Starlink.
Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:42 Harry Stebbings Why the fuck does any Stripe, Databricks, Starlink, you name it, go public when there is so much money in privates?
- ▶ 1:00:58 Zachary Bookman Databricks supposedly raising the largest private round ever, I think. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:13 Zachary Bookman And he's going mom on that and data bricks and others.
Nik Storonsky, Revolut Founder: What Revolut Needs to Do to Hit $100BN Valuation | E1233 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:49 Harry Stebbings You know, we saw Databricks do this secondary transaction.
AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:03 AJ Tennant Or, like, I love, like I said, when reps are saying, oh, I talked to X, Y, and Z customer, you know, I interviewed my friend who's at Databricks who uses Glean, and he did a demo of it to me.
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:49 Harry Stebbings It needs to be a database, a Stripe.
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:00 unnamed speaker Databricks, Datadog, you know, basically what is the software that you need confluent?
Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:10 Chad Peets Um, look at, look at Databricks, right? 3 times in the scene
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:21 Harry Stebbings Bluntly, you and the venture career that you've had so far, and he mentioned you're being 27 and being the co-head of, you know, the venture division at Co-Two, and you worked with Databricks, UiPath, Snowflake, some of the best businesses… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:25 David Cahn I met Justin Borgman on a customer diligence call on Databricks. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:28 Jason Lemkin This Uber, this really interesting one of the Canva's at two and a half billion, and the, and Databricks at two and a half billion, and wherever Stripe is, how, them optimizing the IPO path is super interesting because they all could have… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:42 Jason Lemkin It seemed like Snowflake was going to be the next great platform, but it is Databricks. 2 times in the scene
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:45 Aravind Srinivas Like, it's not, I'm not even talking about things like, why is it hard to migrate from Snowflake to Databricks?
Roger Ehrenberg: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse & Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken | E1117 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:26 Harry Stebbings I don't think Stripe or Databricks will go out in 24.
Ryan Akkina: How MIT Builds Their Venture Fund Portfolio & How MIT Approach Direct Investing | E1109 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:52 Harry Stebbings We mentioned Stripe, there's many others, your Databricks of the world.
Ed Sim & Jamin Ball: Did Figma Kill M&A Markets & 3 Requirements to IPO in 2024 | E1101 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:57 Harry Stebbings If you're on, if you're on the Databricks board, would you say to go public? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:02 Jamin Ball You have data bricks, the behemoth, the big gorilla in the space.
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:42 Jason Lemkin And as long as there are a steady stream of stripes and data bricks and open APIs, there, there will be enough decacorns that venture is permanently decacorn hunters. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:18 Harry Stebbings Do you think data breaks will go out too? 5 times in the scene
David Meyer: Why You Should Hire People Who Aren’t In Product Already | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:20 David Meyer One of the, the, you know, Ali's cultural values, but I, I've kind of internalized it even, you know, pre, pre data breaks is truth seeking.
- ▶ 12:58 David Meyer So, you know, Databricks used to have this value called data-driven.
- ▶ 20:54 Harry Stebbings You mentioned the 6000 people, amazing people within Databricks, but do you worry that with the 6000, you just can't move as fast, and we have this incumbency challenge?
- ▶ 44:00 David Meyer So when I came into, to Databricks, uh, I started using the product and I was like, good lord, you know. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:09 David Meyer Yeah, and so like, let's take Databricks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:25 David Meyer Out, you know, because Databricks are very tech, I, in some consumer companies that might be okay, but in enterprise software, you got to know how that shit works, because otherwise you'll give, make bad decisions because you won't…
- ▶ 1:00:07 David Meyer When I came into Databricks, um, it was bimodal, right?
- ▶ 1:10:25 David Meyer And I tried that for the first six months at Databricks.
20VC: NEW FORMAT: Harry Stebbings on Why Seed Pricing is as High as Ever, Why Series A is the Best Place to Invest Today, Why Growth Founders Need to Reshape Expectations, Why M&A Windows Remain Shut and When Will IPO Windows Crack Open
- ▶ 20:29 Harry Stebbings Databricks, SpaceX potentially go out next year. 2 times in the scene
Beezer Clarkson: Are LPs Open for Business & Why Do LP Incentive Mechanisms Need to Change? | E1073 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:27 Harry Stebbings Like, you know, it, you'll see it in the update coming out this weekend, but it's like, you know, data breaks, stripe, it's not going to be enough to actually crack open the IPO markets like we think it will be, I don't think.
Roundtable #4 with Jason Lemkin, Woody Marshall, Deven Parekh, Harry Stebbings | E1071 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:29 Deven Parekh Databricks would be the one exception of a, you know, of a big late stage deal that's gotten done recently.
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:13:52 Jason Lemkin We need a stripe, a data bricks. 2 times in the scene
a16z GP Martin Casado: How I Went from Engineer to VC; Lessons from Chris Dixon | 20VC #956 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:42 Martin Casado Like, for example, when all the God see, you know, the CEO of Databricks and I have dinner, we almost always just talk about like category creation and building out, go to market from a technology standpoint, it's actually a very, very…
20VC: Why Operating Experience Becomes Irrelevant Fast and Operators Often Give Bad Advice to Founders, Is Silicon Valley Really Dead? Are Gen Z the Most Entitled Employees? What Will Happen to a Generation of Pre-PMF Companies with $50M in the Bank with
- ▶ 1:17 Harry Stebbings At Wondaco, Sujay has led investments in Figma, OnePassword, Databricks, and many more great companies.
Cathie Wood: Elon & Twitter; Why Facebook is a Value Stock Now; ARK's Performance | 20VC #949 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:08 Harry Stebbings In all others, the capital chooses the asset, and my question to you is, in the top decile, which is, as we all know, what drives performance for all funds, there is 50 people chasing it, and it's Ben Horowitz at Andreessen who turns up to…
Fivetran's Lauren Schwartz: Must-Ask Questions to Identify Potential Sales Talent | 20VC #939 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:24 Lauren Schwartz And so we work really closely with a number of our partners, Snowflake, Databricks, GCP, AWS, and go to market with their sales teams.
Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:51 Tristan Handy And I think that, you know, you can see that in Databricks and Confluent and Snowflake and like, they've all kind of
20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings Since joining in 2019, David has invested in the likes of Clubhouse, Coinbase, Databricks, Figma, Instacart, Robinhood, and TripActions, to name a 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:52 Harry Stebbings I do want to start by saying a huge thank you to Angela Strange on your team and Ali at Databricks for some brilliant questions, suggestions, but thank you so much for joining me today, David.
- ▶ 13:52 David George Databricks, three times.
20VC: How To Deliver Feedback with Compassion and Clarity, WTF Are Values Really and How To Instill Them & Raising $50M+ From Index and Greylock but Remaining in Stealth for 12 Months with Linda Lian, Co-Founder & CEO @ CommonRoom
- ▶ 4:25 Linda Lian And, you know, you see all these amazing companies today doing the same like MongoDB and Databricks and Starburst and Confluence.
20VC: Databricks CEO, Ali Ghodsi on The 3 Phases of Startup Growth, How to Evaluate Risk and Downside Scenario Planning & Who, What and When To Hire When Scaling Your Go-To-Market
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings And so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome Ali Godsey, founder and CEO at Databrace, the company bringing together data engineering, science, and analytics onto an open, unified platform so that data teams can collaborate and innovate… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:48 Ali Ghodsi So during the years when Databricks was sort of growing super fast every year, I would force the executive team every year to do this sky is falling exercise.
- ▶ 7:06 Ali Ghodsi There used to be a joke internally at Databricks that, you know, crush it is like the hashtag.
- ▶ 8:25 Ali Ghodsi You know, things were not great at Databricks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:16 Ali Ghodsi And when I compare the early days of Databricks, say, up to like, hundred, 150 employees, it's insane the amount of things that the early folks would do. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:23 Ali Ghodsi I mean, depends on the type of people, but I think Databricks has a lot of sort of competitive, accountable sort of people.
- ▶ 29:09 Ali Ghodsi So that's a sort of different phase, the third phase, and I would say Databricks is in that phase right now, and it requires a different mindset to that as well.
- ▶ 31:26 Ali Ghodsi I have to now make sure that any problem we solve at Databricks gets fixed and never happens again.
- ▶ 39:18 Harry Stebbings Paying the picture for me, and it's like, what did the next five years look like for you and for Databrace? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:40 Harry Stebbings My word, I so enjoyed doing that show with Ali, and such exciting times ahead for Databricks.