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CRO Confidential: 0 to $600M in Under 4 Years. The ElevenLabs GTM Playbook with Carles Reina
Who Owns Your Data Now? Agents vs. Systems of Record on The Agents #013
- ▶ 7:59 Jason Lemkin Or Databricks, it's a drop in the bucket. 2 times in the scene
Agents Didn't Kill Sales. They Just Exposed It with SaaStrAI CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 16:50 unnamed speaker And I also, a Databricks guy was there.
- ▶ 34:35 Jason Lemkin You know, I was gonna, I, I, I, when we had Arslan from Databricks yesterday, I meant to ask him, we ran out of time. 2 times in the scene
The Agents #008: Agents Are Merging, Not Multiplying. Plus, Sam Blond on Why Outbound Isn't Dead.
- ▶ 32:20 Jason Lemkin We even talked about it with the Databricks co-founder saster.
The Enterprise AI Reality Check: From Dashboard Graveyards to 30-Day Migrations with Databricks
- ▶ 0:38 Jason Lemkin I think this actually will be one of the, a perfectly timed discussion because we have had an intense, uh, journey here this year on building agents to point agents, what it means, but not everyone's selling to what, what is Databricks? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:50 Arsalan Tavakoli Like, um, we used to joke about this that in the, you know, Databricks has been a data and AI company now for what, like, 13 years at this point, and we used to have to, we would scream the data part, we'd whisper AI, because AI people… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:29 Arsalan Tavakoli Anybody at Databricks would know what I mean, but then it's like, what does he mean by clouds? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:24 Arsalan Tavakoli So inside of Databricks, we have something called Genie Enterprise Context that literally looks at all the questions you ask, all the data you pulls in and figures it out on the fly and evolves it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:49 Jason Lemkin And Genie is at least like your master agent or your meta agent, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:04 Jason Lemkin What can I do now in Databricks? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:59 Arsalan Tavakoli What's the best way to go ask it, and that's why BI tools that are connect, like in Databricks, we have these kind of business semantics that then all of the external BI tools can connect to. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:08 Arsalan Tavakoli It makes it much more intelligent, what you can visualize, and inside of Databricks, Genie, which you talked about, is integrated with the BI layer, so you can ask questions.
- ▶ 18:04 Jason Lemkin Databricks is clearly a beneficiary over all of this trend, like unquestionably, but your point backstage is there's a murky middle where it's not clear of all of your workflows and application, which one you really are and how important… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:20 Arsalan Tavakoli We have like Databricks apps, which gives me a container to build it.
- ▶ 24:25 Jason Lemkin But Databricks is operating at a slightly different scale. 2 times in the scene
Our Agent Negotiated a Vendor Renewal, Became a CFO and a Better SDR .. but has too many guardrails
- ▶ 38:40 Jason Lemkin We had one of the co-founders of Databricks at annual saying now they can do Databricks migration in a matter of weeks because they perfected with LMs, right? 2 times in the scene
$4 Trillion in IPOs, $100B in M&A, and Why B2B Spend is Booming
- ▶ 13:41 Jason Lemkin SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, we'll add in Databricks, we'll have Arsan, one of the co-founders here in about half an hour after this.
What Agents That Actually Work Look Like Right Now with Replit's CEO and Founder
- ▶ 11:33 Amjad Masad But because data at Replit is so big right now, we have terabytes of data across, you know, across BigQuery and Databricks and, and all the other things, and all the schemas are different, and so we created this repo that has all the… 2 times in the scene
Managing 20+ AI Agents: Lazy Agents, Our $500K AI Bill, Stealth Churn & the Death of 60% Solutions
- ▶ 2:26 Jason Lemkin Then the CEOs and CXOs of, of Databricks and Replit and Lovable and vZero and Atlassian turned out it wasn't the case.
- ▶ 23:33 Jason Lemkin How's, how's Databricks doing?
The Top 5 Issues Managing Multiple AI Agents in Production
- ▶ 54:43 Jason Lemkin Uh, Vercel and all these great people and, you know, CTO of Databricks.
AI + B2B in 2026: Find the Tailwinds or Get Left Behind | Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 27:57 Jason Lemkin There, there are some exceptions, obviously snowflake data bricks on the private side.
6 Months Later, How Our AI SDRs Actually Work as AI Runs GTM with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer
- ▶ 29:28 Amelia Ibarra So if I'm going to email the CEO of Databricks, like, I want to copy his press team, his chief of staff, his CMO, if it's for something speaking, probably the CMO too, for visibility.
Why Only “WTF” Products Can Survive Today with Brett Queener Partner at Bonfire Ventures
- ▶ 18:42 Brett Queener Use Glean or, you know, Anthropics partnership with Databricks.
What Happens When AI Kills Your SaaS Growth? Live Q&A with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 10:55 Jason Lemkin Databricks just bought this, some Postgres company for a billion, right?
AI, M&A, and the Future of SaaS: Lessons from Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO, Co-Founder and Chair
- ▶ 36:17 Marc Benioff So whether it's Databricks or Snowflake, whether it's Shopify, whether it's BigQuery, whether it's
Why I’m Scared to Buy New SaaS Apps Now with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 17:38 Jason Lemkin Your Salesforce or any data, Adobe sign, Echo sign, whatever, even if you can get it all out as PDFs, how are you going to get the structure around it in the enterprise data lakes and other services like snowflake and data bricks.
The 2025 SaaS Vibe Check: What Founders Need to Know Right Now with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 5:11 Jason Lemkin It's these growth rounds that are absorbing massive amounts of capital, especially because in some cases, like a Databricks, OpenAI and others, the valuations are 50, 60, a 103 hundred billion.
From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship
- ▶ 1:08 Sam Blond We have Ron Gabrisco, who's CRO at Databricks. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:32 Sam Blond Before we get into the revenue, let's start with you joining Databricks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:06 Sam Blond So you join the company is less than a million dollars of ARR. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:21 Ron Gabrisko If you look at the strategy of the company, it was like, make Databricks the best place to manage Spark. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:34 Sam Blond I think Databricks is in San Francisco.
- ▶ 21:05 Sam Blond Shall I go through a little bit of the evolution, how that worked at Databricks.
- ▶ 26:21 Sam Blond Um, of those things, what comes to mind in terms of things that you've done a really effective job at Databricks?
- ▶ 29:01 Sam Blond You can go back to day one and tell Ron on day one starting at Databricks some advice given everything that you've learned thus far, and maybe more in the abstract for
The Future of AI in B2B SaaS: Insights from Synthesia and Theory Ventures. Hosted by Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 25:38 Tomasz Tunguz You look at Databricks raising 15.
- ▶ 37:05 Tomasz Tunguz What's the latest with Databricks?
Deep Dive: Easy Sales Concepts So Many Get Wrong with Sam Blond
The 7 Biggest Mistakes CMOs Make (And How to Avoid Them) with the CMOs of Databricks, Zoom, and Okta
- ▶ 0:11 Carrie-Lou Dietrich Today I'm here with Rick Schultz, a former colleague of mine at Oracle and the current CMO of Databricks.
- ▶ 8:51 Carrie-Lou Dietrich Not investing early enough in brand, and so Rick, you've said less so now at Databricks, but at Alteryx before, you were really focused on demand gen, and hadn't invested as much early in brand, and that, that turned out to be something… 3 times in the scene
Why the Future of Customer Success, Sales & Marketing Has Changed with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 8:49 Jason Lemkin Databricks is, is another top candidate. 2 times in the scene
Nick Mehta, CEO Gainsight: My Top 10 Failures as a SaaS CEO & What I've Learned
- ▶ 32:06 Nick Mehta Databricks.
What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024
- ▶ 34:58 unnamed speaker Databricks acquisition, and so I'm seeing a lot of activity in the market.
2024 SaaS Landscape: Why 2024 Could be Pretty Darn Good for SaaS IPOs with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 17:05 Jason Lemkin There's Databricks, there's Stripe, there's Gusto.
State of the Cloud 2023 with Bessemer Venture Partners
- ▶ 5:06 Janelle Teng Specifically, we saw, again, a significant amount of take private transactions, and on the strategic side, we saw a recent acquisition from Databricks for Mosaic ML for a 1.3 billion dollar transaction, which indicates how AI is becoming a…
- ▶ 21:33 Mary D'Onofrio The second is a story that we've already alluded to earlier, which is Databricks' acquisition of Mosaic ML. 3 times in the scene
Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta: My Top 10 Mistakes In 10 Years (LIVE SaaStr Workshop Wednesday)
- ▶ 48:50 Nick Mehta How come we're not data bricks?
Lessons Learned in Scaling Early-Stage to Hyper-Growth Companies: From VMware, AWS and Databricks
- ▶ 3:02 Ed Lenta Is, ah, is the TAM for Databricks, which is effectively the entire TAM around data, think ETL and machine learning and BI and data warehousing and streaming and governance, is that a big total addressable market? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:55 Ed Lenta We were able to think organization-wide, and at Databricks, we've been going through the same thing inside of our organization. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:24 Ed Lenta And at Databricks, we've done similar things. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:17 Ed Lenta Just a couple of things if, ah, if folks wanted to find out more about Databricks.
- ▶ 30:19 Ed Lenta So if you look at the Databricks context, you can go to the AWS Marketplace today, and you can just start using Databricks in a purely consumption model, um, because we want to try and remove as much of the friction as we possibly can from… 2 times in the scene
Proven Leadership Frameworks for a High-Performing Sales Team with Databricks' VP of Sales
- ▶ 0:10 Heather Equibo I run mid-market and commercial sales at Databricks in the Americas, and I'm excited to talk to you today, uh, about how, uh, over the last four and a half years, I've been working on growing, uh, our team by a hundred percent year over… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:28 Heather Equibo What I have right here is a word cloud that was recently created from about 20 cross-functional business partners from within the Databricks team, and as you can see, teamwork is in there, dedicated, that's, you know, close to ownership,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:51 Heather Equibo But then as soon as somebody comes into Databricks, we're wanting to give them
- ▶ 13:51 Heather Equibo Databricks is a very dynamic company.
- ▶ 18:17 Heather Equibo Um, our values at Databricks are the guiding star.
- ▶ 19:43 Heather Equibo So, um, the first question is how does Databricks internally share and communicate your values? 2 times in the scene
Picking the Perfect Pricing Model that Fits Your App and More with HackerOne's CEO Marten Mickos
- ▶ 8:32 Mårten Mickos Here's another example of a super successful company, Databricks. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:41 Mårten Mickos Databricks had a 10 X elasticity somehow.
The Future of AI, Open Source, and Enterprise SaaS with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi
- ▶ 1:07 Nithya Ruff We'll discuss some of what Databricks is doing, which is so magical, managing open source in a very, ah, scalable and, ah, enterprise way. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:26 Nithya Ruff And you all did so many things right when you started an open source based company like Databricks. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:13 Ali Ghodsi So we said, let's pick something that's independent, and we picked Databricks because we thought, you know, we'll build one brick at a time, you know, in the data stack as we're building it.
- ▶ 24:04 Ali Ghodsi The, basically, you speak to the post remote, the audio goes in, it goes into a Databricks lake house, it actually gets processed by MLflow, and then it's stored in the Delta Lake, and then, you know, they do the synthesizing and figuring… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:42 Nithya Ruff And what I like about what, uh, Databricks has done is most of these projects are in a neutral home like the Apache Foundation or the Linux Foundation where a lot of companies can contribute. 2 times in the scene