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He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni Aug 10, 2026 · 2 mentions

He churned 100% of his revenue on purpose—then grew 10x to $2M ARR in under 12 months. | Ali Khok... · PMF Show Jun 8, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:54 Ali Khokhar That's what then I went and spoke with a couple of, I was having already conversations and I convinced my brilliant co-founder and CTO now to leave his job at Databricks to come join me.

He killed a $100K ARR product & pivoted—then raised $375M. | Viraj Parekh, Co-Founder of Astronomer · PMF Show Dec 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 17:53 Viraj Parekh Databricks is, I can't even remember how big the last round of funding they raised was, but that's built around Apache Spark. 2 times in the scene

He built a new database in his bedroom—now he powers Cursor, Notion and Anthropic. | Simon Eskild... · PMF Show Oct 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:32 Simon Eskildsen None of the existing databases have that storage architecture because otherwise there's no reason why the other big database companies like Snowflake and Databricks and MongoDB and Oracle would not just get good at it unless it…

His Video AI app hit $10M+ ARR in Months—with 0 outbound sales. | Michael Lingelbach, Founder of ... · PMF Show Aug 18, 2025 · 1 mention

He went 7 years with no revenue— then grew to $100M ARR. | Rob Woollen, Co-Founder of Sigma · PMF Show Jun 30, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 4:18 Rob Woollen And our key insight was that companies increasingly move a large majority of their data into these large cloud data systems like a Snowflake or a Databricks or Google BigQuery.
  • ▶ 20:44 Rob Woollen So like, SIGMA is not useful unless you can connect it to a, something like a Snowflake or a Databricks. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:48 Rob Woollen So this time we were not using like a Snowfrake or Databricks.
  • ▶ 44:30 Rob Woollen We were only supporting these cloud systems like a Snowflake or Databricks.

Post-YC, he split with his co-founder—then grew profitably to $2M ARR with just 5 people. | Jon Y... · PMF Show Mar 13, 2025 · 1 mention

Why new Carta data shows bridge rounds might be worse than you think. | Peter Walker, Head of Ins... · PMF Show Feb 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:38 unnamed speaker I mean, part of it is that kind of distortion, like whether it's opening or I think another one, big one was Databricks, um, you know, just raising, raising money and just kind of skewing, uh, skewing the numbers that way.
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