Databricks, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Databricks comes up
Why Investors Are Rethinking Everything for the AI Era
- ▶ 42:11 Aram Verdian Um, would you have wanted to sell Stripe, Databricks, or any of those other companies three, four years ago?
Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- ▶ 57:42 David George And, and by the way, they're going to compete, they're going to be competing with not only the labs to be that abstraction layer, but Databricks. 3 times in the scene
How Open Source Became AI's Backbone | Inferact with a16z
- ▶ 36:40 Elena Burger Just about Infraact and, you know, running the company, and I know that Ian Stoick of Databricks is an advisor and a co-founder of Infraact, and I'm just curious what you've learned from him, ah, in terms of taking an open source project… 2 times in the scene
AI Markets: Deep Dive with a16z's David George
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.
The Biggest Bottlenecks For AI: Energy & Cooling
- ▶ 0:45 David George Um, we've got some slides showing this whole trend and, you know, I guess Databricks was an appropriate way to kick off, um, you know, talking about the trend of companies staying private longer than ever.
- ▶ 40:12 David George Then we got to usage-based, and so, you know, obviously all the cloud companies, uh, run that way, um, you know, Databricks runs that way, Snowflake, et cetera.
- ▶ 51:09 unnamed speaker Some of the names that we have underwritten, you know, I think there is this broader question of gosh, like there's a lot of, of names, for example, like, um, you know, the chat, uh, opening eyes of the world and also data bricks that feel… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:02 David George So to the extent that instead of using that sort of structured database on the back end, you take all of your unstructured data and dump it into a Databricks, for example, um, you know, and, and query it or access it through that.
Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
- ▶ 10:09 Packy McCormick I, I love the, the email that you sent to, to Ali at, at Databricks, Ben, where you talk about the fact that, you know, the business was underselling itself, he was underselling the business, and it was gonna be 10 times bigger than… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:25 Marc Andreessen But yeah, when, when we look at Substack, it's the exact same thing that you were just talking about with Databricks, which is like, wow, this thing could be orders of magnitude, orders of magnitude multiples, um, larger, um, you know,…