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Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
- ▶ 33:17 Ben Horowitz We've also kind of gotten all of our data in a Databricks data lake, and so we can ask, you know, basically any question about the firm or the portfolio.
Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business
- ▶ 3:19 Ben Horowitz And with Databricks, I do a way fucking worse job. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:54 Ben Horowitz By the way, that's how we started, uh, Databricks was I think everybody was a PhD in computer science who was running anything.
- ▶ 37:40 Ben Horowitz And because, you know, they have a keen eye on that, everything they buy ends up looking like a Databricks product, you know, like, and, and that work is going in. 4 times in the scene
Founders, Media, & Memes: a16z’s Strategy for the Future | a16z LP Summit 2025
- ▶ 20:16 Ben Horowitz Yeah, and, yeah, and then, and by the way, like, that's where we have higher impact, too, you know, like, and I love Databricks, but I was, like, massively impactful early, and, you know, now, like, I call Ali, and I say, good job.
- ▶ 29:14 Ben Horowitz Yes, I think succession planning is kind of like a tactic, um, and look, we've already done succession, I, so the original Infra investor in the firm was me, um, and I made some good investments, you know, like Okta and, uh, Databricks,…
Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software
- ▶ 1:13:42 Ben Horowitz Um, and actually in, uh, so in entrepreneurial world, like we saw this with Databricks, where like they had a very clear vision of what they were going to be.
Build Your Startup With AI
- ▶ 4:33 Ben Horowitz You know, at Databricks, they've got a foundation model, but they're using in a very specific way, you know, in conjunction with their kind of leading data platform.
Startup Building: Challenges & Opportunities
- ▶ 35:29 Ben Horowitz Like if you do all those things, like I like, uh, Ali's company, Databricks, they're really, really good at that.
Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter
- ▶ 59:20 Ben Horowitz We funded, uh, you know, Databricks out of Berkeley, which was a research done, you know, on computer science and scalable systems in their, uh, basis in their amp lab.
AI Food Fights in the Enterprise with Databricks' Ali Ghodsi
- ▶ 14:09 Ben Horowitz Um, and then, you know, coming from Databricks perspective, how are you, how are you all thinking about open source, both with respect to Mosaic and then with the other, you know, things like Llama?
Ben Horowitz on Executive Firing (and Hiring)
- ▶ 21:25 Ben Horowitz They better know their function better than you, but they don't know Databricks better than you. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:53 Ben Horowitz How about, how about the other, though, because how do you keep the kind, like, let's say you need a pretty sharp cultural change, and you guys did at Databricks early on, where you were very engineering centric, I'll just say, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:06 Ben Horowitz That's how he got into the Databricks interview process, and he was like the most left field candidate, but he ended up being the best candidate.