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Assertion Partly supported
Casado: a16z portfolio includes four $100 billion companies
“Even in the Andreessen portfolio, I was just thinking off the top of my head, we have three companies that are at the 104 companies at the hundred billion dollar mark, right? I mean, there's Stripe, Databricks, Coinbase, OpenAI.”
Martin Casado Sep 4, 2025 ▶ 41:10 Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
Assertion Supported
Horowitz: Databricks refused on-premise customer demands to stay cloud-only
“And actually in 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. And the audience wanted it on premise and they refused to do it because it was so contrary to their vision. Bu…”
Ben Horowitz May 28, 2025 ▶ 1:13:42 Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software
Assertion Supported
Andreessen: Training state-of-the-art AI models costs $100M+
“To train us, you know, state of the art model, you're at a hundred million dollars plus. You know, to train a, you know, a big one, to train a small one, like the Databricks model that just came out. It's like on the order of ten million dollars.”
Marc Andreessen Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 1:04:45 Politics & the Future of Tech
Assertion Partly supported
David George: Databricks counts all major AI-native companies as customers
“And then they have the big AI native companies all as customers.”
David George Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 46:28 AI Markets: Deep Dive with a16z's David George
Assertion Contradicted
Zaharia: Databricks includes all engine improvements in open-source Spark
“It's the same Spark that anyone else gets in the open source. All the libraries, all the improvements we put into the engine, you can just download them and run them yourselves. Or if you want you know, you can talk to a vendor that provides support. Support o…”
Matei Zaharia Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:31 a16z Podcast | A Conversation With the Inventor of Spark
Assertion Supported
Ghodsi: Databricks still retains all seven original co-founders
“We're, you know, seven co-founders still.”
Ali Ghodsi Oct 15, 2025 ▶ 1:03:16 Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business
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