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Dave Morin: Databricks's $60 billion mega-rounds are not venture capital
“The fact that we're even referring to this as a round. This is not venture capital.”
Gil: Databricks Is Smart to Aggressively Acquire Startups Before Going Public
“And so it's actually harder to buy things as a public company as it is from a private company, which is why I think what Databricks is doing or some others in terms of buying things while you're private is really smart because it's going to get harder once you…”
Jessica Lessin: Capital Group is an unannounced investor in Databricks
“And we had a piece that one of their not announced investors is Capital Group, right? Which is a huge, you know, public tech investor, also done private, but is very sort of under the radar and obviously like not a venture capital firm.”