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Assertion Contradicted
Databricks is growing at three times the rate of Snowflake
“And if you look at it too, right, we're three times their growth rate.”
Ron Gabrisko Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 59:44 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
Assertion Contradicted
Ramaswamy: Databricks Buys Revenue and Has Double Snowflake's Sales Headcount
“It's very clear that they're buying a bunch of business. That they don't have to worry about things like you know free cash flow. They have doubled the number of sales people that we have.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 29:31 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Contradicted
Stebbings: Anthropic made $6B in February, exceeding Databricks' lifetime revenue
“28 day month of February, where they did six billion in revenue, which was more than Databricks has done in their entire lifetime.”
Harry Stebbings Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 1:16 OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Contradicted
Databricks generated $3 billion in revenue last year
“We just did three billion last year.”
Ron Gabrisko Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 57:21 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
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Databricks will fund $200M in partner projects this year
“You know, we'll fund two hundred million in projects to partners this year, but I would spend even more on partners and distribution.”
Ron Gabrisko Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 1:00:42 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
Assertion Contradicted
Databricks had hundreds of thousands of free Spark users when Gabrisco joined
“When I joined, we had hundreds of thousands of spark free users.”
Ron Gabrisko Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 23:21 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
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