Databricks, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Databricks comes up
The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
- ▶ 0:16 Matt Bornstein You had a lot of success doing Nirvana, Mosaic, and Databricks.
- ▶ 1:04 Matt Bornstein Prior to that, Naveen was at Databricks as head of AI and co-founder of two successful companies, Mosaic in the, uh, cloud computing world and Nirvana, uh, doing AI chip accelerators, uh, before it was cool.
- ▶ 3:22 Matt Bornstein You know, so you've had a lot of success doing both of those things and at Databricks, um, why start a new chip company now?
Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
- ▶ 14:30 Michael Truell We have Databricks, Snowflake, we have, uh, we're on AWS GCP and Azure,
Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business
- ▶ 0:40 Erik Torenberg So in the spirit of, of, of Boss Talk, let's talk about the, the first time that you became a boss in terms of running, uh, uh, Databricks. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:01 Ali Ghodsi So this was the biggest challenge that Databricks had at the time. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 12:57 Sarah Wang So maybe on the topic of managing talent, um, you have this incredibly high intensity culture at Databricks. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:24 Sarah Wang Um, we actually hired an ex-Databricks employee to A-sixteen Z, so we have some inside scoop on your leadership style, and one of the things he said was, you have this, and Ben sort of touched on this too, but you have this amazing ability… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:35 Ali Ghodsi Uh, usually I find all these small companies show up and they come, for instance, to Databricks now and say, oh, we'd love for you to partner with us. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 43:34 Sarah Wang Maybe actually just to turn, so we're talking about Databricks as an acquirer. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:10 Sarah Wang Um, and we know that you can bring the best talent in the house, right, to Databricks.
- ▶ 51:59 Ali Ghodsi You know, I get questions about how do we build our own company, you know, how do we succeed at Databricks and so on. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:44 Ali Ghodsi By the way, they come back, like after start companies, oftentimes they come back to Databricks and they're much more thankful and they understand. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:22 Ali Ghodsi One, one way to prove that is if Databricks, Databricks started in, if we had started in, you know, that rocky year, that difficult year, you know, would have then happened in, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:41 Ali Ghodsi Um, you know, it's like, you know, I think the sentiment at Databricks was, or at least my sentiment was, 2 times in the scene
Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
- ▶ 41:16 Martin Casado I mean, there's Stripe, Databricks, Coinbase, OpenAI.
The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
- ▶ 21:45 Matt Bornstein And, um, I think as a firm, we've been super, super active and super aggressive, you know, and, uh, investing in companies like Databricks, I mentioned, Fibetran, DBT, which, which, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:51 Jennifer Li If it's, you know, YubiKeys or if it's, um, again, like Databricks on Spark. 2 times in the scene
Tech Executives: AI Has Changed SaaS Forever (Don't Fall Behind)
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,…
Giving New Life to Unstructured Data with LLMs and Agents
- ▶ 7:13 Anant Bhardwaj And I think there is a paper by Databricks, which is compound AI system, that elements are very good, but you need a bunch of systems before and after this for that to be reliable.
Beyond Leaderboards: LMArena’s Mission to Make AI Reliable
- ▶ 50:31 Ion Stoica Like, um, you know, like Databricks with Spark and, uh, or AnyScale with Ray.
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.
How AI is Powering Payments, with Greg Ulrich of Mastercard
- ▶ 23:14 Greg Ulrich We partnered with Databricks quite a bit.