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Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:31 Matt Fitzpatrick You know, I'm gonna, Databricks, which is, you're gonna be like, well, they're very rated, but 3 times in the scene
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:06 unnamed speaker Databricks does it in the back half of the year because it's just time.
- ▶ 16:58 Harry Stebbings I mean, the expansion of fund size, the expansion of vehicles, the holding vehicle now, the roll-up play, OpenAI central position, Cursor, Databricks, Carvana, Revolut.
- ▶ 24:02 unnamed speaker Mine is Databricks. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:11 Harry Stebbings You could go, actually, Snowflake, you're going to continuously be cannibalized by Databricks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:17 unnamed speaker You have, I mean, just taking the huge ease, you have Databricks, you have Stripe, and then you have the big one of all, SpaceX. 4 times in the scene
Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:08 Harry Stebbings You do, but then, you know, I just released a show on Monday with David George, and Databricks seven X'd a billion dollar fund for them, and Coinbase five X'd it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:11 unnamed speaker And the bad news is they've left the entire compounding of Databricks, of SpaceX, of Entropic, of open AI on the table. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:54 Jason Calacanis He goes from one oh seven NRR to a hundred, you know, Databricks has 150% NRR at five billion ARR.
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:40 David George In that fund, Databricks has returned seven X the fund so far.
- ▶ 10:57 David George Stripe, SpaceX, Databricks, you know, it's worked, it's worked to their advantage for sure.
- ▶ 50:08 David George So again, you should look back at our investment case for investing in Databricks, you know, in 2019. 2 times in the scene
SpaceX Valued at $800BN & Harvey Raises $160M at an $8BN Price & Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:13 Jason Lemkin Who knows what retail will do to, to, to SpaceX and Stripe and, um, street names like Databricks, which everyone talks about. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:07 Rory O'Driscoll When you kind of sent out the note, you said, you know, what happens if SpaceX, Entropic, and Databricks go public, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:24 Harry Stebbings Next, Naveen Databricks, head of AI, announces his five hundred million dollar seed round at a five billion dollar price.
Eventbrite Sold for $500M, Databricks $5B Raise at $134B Valuation & Why SaaS is Like Japan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:14 Harry Stebbings Databricks is one of the stars of the last generation, or this generation. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:50 Harry Stebbings When you actually look at the certainty that you have that Databricks has a three to five X from here, you're absolutely right. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:09 Jason Lemkin Um, I might want my agents from Salesforce and Snowflake and Databricks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:05 Jason Lemkin Um, uh, that, that Replit lose and Databricks bought in for a billion, but databases are a hard problem.
20VC: Max Altman on The New Seed War: Can Anyone Compete with Sequoia and a16z | Leaving $2BN on the Table with Reddit | Lessons from Backing Rippling at $25M Post | Why Climate Tech is a Mirage and Disaster
- ▶ 1:12:59 Harry Stebbings No, no, not necessarily, because if Databricks is a two to five hundred billion dollar company, the return would be like, Josh, with his check into OpenAI, I don't want to bring anything, but like at thirty billion, I was like, dude, come…
Benchmark's GP, Everett Randle on Why Mega Funds Will Not Produce Good Returns · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:34 Everett Randle Because 99, or not, not like 95% of the profit that you're going to make and the money in your pocket is going to come from the billion dollars you put in Databricks, or the three billion dollars you put in OpenAI, or any of those things…
- ▶ 1:05:25 Everett Randle Because they got really big stakes in Databricks. 2 times in the scene
20Sales: Why You Need a CRO Pre-Product | Why Remote Sales Teams Do Not Work | How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine with Chad Peets
- ▶ 44:39 unnamed speaker Look at, look at Databricks, right? 3 times in the scene
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:33 David Cahn Look at Databricks, sixty billion, now a hundred billion valuation.
20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan
- ▶ 28:11 Harry Stebbings You know, talking about kind of putting the work in, I listened to all of your shows before this, that you've done with other people, or where you've spoken publicly, talks you've given, and you said that you gave air to Databricks by…
- ▶ 28:39 Chris Degnan What was happening, Soflake was super fat and happy being the cloud data warehouse, and I was going to the engineering team, founders, and everyone saying, look, I'm diagnosing where the patient, our customer, is getting sick with, with… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:31 Chris Degnan I mean, look at Databricks. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:13 Harry Stebbings So they've got two acts of sales team. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:53 Harry Stebbings Is there anything you would have done differently in terms of how you sold the Snowflake product in competition with Databricks with the benefit of hindsight? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:09 Chris Degnan Beat out Databricks in these other use cases to make sure that you can go out and get a contract renewal sooner.
- ▶ 54:17 Chris Degnan But saying that because I, I shout loud, loudly, I mean, look, Ali at Databricks, he shouts pretty loud and he's done a good job, and I don't necessarily agree about how he goes about doing things, but 2 times in the scene
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:21 Harry Stebbings Naveen Rao, who was VP of AI at Databricks. 5 times in the scene
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:12 unnamed speaker You know, in the limit, maybe we're just left with two foundation models and Databricks and Stripe raising a serious
General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08:35 Hemant Taneja So the very bad, the Databricks is getting there slowly.
OpenAI’s $10BN Secondary Sale, Ramp Hits $1BN ARR & Brex Hits $700M · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:55 Jason Lemkin It feels small compared to Canva when we had Cliff on last week, and it feels very small when we're talking about Databricks just crossing, you know, 50% growth at four billion.
Anthropic Raises $13BN & OpenAI Buys Statsig for $1.1BN All Stock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:04 unnamed speaker On its surface, you know, Anthropic at what, one 60, Databricks at a hundred, Canva at 42 sounds, uh, at first, if you don't, the, there is multiple compression. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:11 unnamed speaker Otherwise we have to give up on all the public guys and bet on the canvas and Databricks and the, uh, anthropics and give up on the last generation.
Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:17 Marc Benioff When you look at other data clouds, Snowflake, Databricks, Palantir Foundry, they're all in the three to four billion dollar revenue.
- ▶ 9:46 Marc Benioff And even when you look at other data clouds, you know, like a Snowflake or a Databricks or even a Palantir Foundry, they're all in the three to four billion dollar revenue level.
- ▶ 48:09 unnamed speaker I mean, Neon got bought for, for, by Databricks for billions,
- ▶ 1:00:02 Harry Stebbings When you look at some of them, we've mentioned like the Databricks of the world, and how much that will return. 2 times in the scene
BVP Partner, Byron Deeter: The Future of Venture - Why Chanel vs Walmart is BS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:27 Byron Deeter He also did Databricks, but he was very early, uh, with Arvind.
- ▶ 41:38 Byron Deeter Um, X, uh, um, Anthropic, you know, Canva, Databricks, Stripe, go down the list.
- ▶ 1:15:50 Byron Deeter And, you know, Pete's done this many times already with, with perplexity and Databricks and many others where, I mean, he literally was there at the inception stage of these Decacorn businesses.
Databricks at $100BN, CoreWeave’s $11B Debt Bet & Nubank’s $2.5B Profit Shocker - Ep.19 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:03 Jason Lemkin Databricks just said they're crossing four billion, growing 50. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 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.