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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Databricks comes up
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.
20VC: Annie Duke on Reversible vs Irreversible Decisions, How To Evaluate Risk, The Theory of Sunk Cost in Venture & How to Optimise Both the Discussion and Quality of Investment Decisions
- ▶ 40:17 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate all your support, and I can't wait to bring you an incredible episode this coming Thursday with Ali, founder and CEO at Databricks.