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Borgman: Databricks and Snowflake operate strictly as cloud-only data platforms
“Databricks and Snowflake are cloud only, so if you happen to have data on-prem we're pretty much your only bet, and you know, it just so happens that that turns out to be most of the Fortune 500 almost the entirety of the financial Social services sector in pa…”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 20:14 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
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Databricks SQL product line hit $200M in revenue and is doubling
“Databricks, the SQL products, two hundred million in revenue doubling.”
Tomasz Tunguz May 16, 2024 ▶ 38:35 AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
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Stoica: Apache Spark has exceeded 500 active open-source contributors
“We exceeded 500 contributors. It is the most active big data project right now, Spark.”
Ion Stoica Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 16:47 Ion Stoica, Databricks // Creating Apache Spark // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
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Stoica: Databricks still provides the majority of Apache Spark open-source contributions
“A lot of contributions, still the majority of contributions comes from Databricks.”
Ion Stoica Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 17:00 Ion Stoica, Databricks // Creating Apache Spark // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
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Moses cites 2022 revenues for BigQuery, Snowflake, and Databricks
“So you're seeing companies like BigQuery with 1.5 billion dollars in revenue, Snowflake with a billion dollars in revenue Databricks with eight hundred million in accelerating.”
Barr Moses Apr 12, 2022 ▶ 4:42 Unlocking Data Observability with Monte Carlo's Barr Moses
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Databricks founding CEO Ion Stoica was Haoyuan Li's PhD co-advisor
“Yang, who, who's the founding CEO of Databricks, he's my PhD co-advisor.”
Haoyuan Li Apr 13, 2016 ▶ 20:25 A Virtual Distributed Storage System // Haoyuan Li, Alluxio (Hosted by FirstMark)
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