Databricks
5 statements across 3 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 11, 2025 by Ben Horowitz · said 12 times in 6 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (3), Ben Horowitz (3), Bret Taylor (2), Nabeel S. Qureshi (1), Krithika Shankarraman (1), Jason Lemkin (1), Aishwarya Reganti (Ash) (1)
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2026 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- $46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z)
- He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
- How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
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Everything said about Databricks, oldest first
Sep 11, 2025 positive
Sep 11, 2025 bullish
Horowitz refused Databricks' $200K pitch, offering a $10M check instead
“So I said, like, I'm not going to write you a check for 200,000 dollars. I'll write you a check for ten million dollars. Cause like this company, you need to build a company. You need to really go for it if you're going to do this. Otherwise, like you guys sho…”
Sep 11, 2025 positive
Horowitz: Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi decisively fires low-leverage executives
“He's unbelievable at that. As good as anybody I've seen as a guy who's not callous as a CEO, he really cares about the people who work for him. He really wants them to have great careers and all that, but he does not Hesitate, like if he's losing leverage, he'…”
Oct 26, 2025 positive
Databricks and competitors are actively using Block's open-source Goose agent
“And we have a lot of companies using Goose pretty actively. I don't want to name too many names, but from our competitors to our sort of close partners, a lot of them are using Goose pretty regularly on their teams. I know Databricks talks about it a lot, but …”
Jan 11, 2026 neutral
Reganti: 75% of enterprises cite reliability as main barrier to customer AI
“It said about 74 or 75% of the enterprises that they had spoken to their biggest problem was reliability, and that's also why they weren't comfortable deploying products to their end users and building customer-facing products”