Arsalan Tavakoli

Co-Founder & SVP Field Engineering, Databricks · 1 appearance on the record.

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Arsalan Tavakoli is the Co-Founder and SVP of Field Engineering at Databricks. He provides insights on enterprise software adoption, field engineering, and upcoming shifts in major software categories.

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Tavakoli: Existing valuable software monopolies will be broken within 24 months
“I think any industry that is highly valuable, that has a monopoly today, Will not have a monopoly, 12 to 24 months from now, because.”
Arsalan Tavakoli Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 19:12 The Enterprise AI Reality Check: From Dashboard Graveyards to 30-Day Migrations with Databricks
Insight
Tavakoli: Text-to-SQL fails in BI without deep semantic data understanding
“I think the hard part for the standalone BI tools was they historically really had no semantic understanding of the data, right? You didn't extract of a data warehouse. They stood there. And when they tried to add talk to data, it was mainly just, let me conve…”
Arsalan Tavakoli Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 16:38 The Enterprise AI Reality Check: From Dashboard Graveyards to 30-Day Migrations with Databricks
Insight
Tavakoli: Enterprise token spend is surging without clear ROI for management
“And so now we have this other problem, which is happening where everybody's like, okay, all my employees are token maxing. My spend on tokens is going up, but I have no idea what I'm getting out for it.”
Arsalan Tavakoli Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 3:49 The Enterprise AI Reality Check: From Dashboard Graveyards to 30-Day Migrations with Databricks
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Tavakoli: Voice interfaces will soon replace click-and-drag BI tools
“I think most people naturally believe that interface is going to go to voice, right? I think it's voice. And so clicking and dragging and dropping like BI tools, like I clicked here, I did that. I think that part is going away.”
Arsalan Tavakoli Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 15:39 The Enterprise AI Reality Check: From Dashboard Graveyards to 30-Day Migrations with Databricks
Opinion
Tavakoli: "Vibe coding" in-house enterprise applications and CRMs is not realistic
“The notion that I'm going to vibe code my own CRM and I'm going to vibe code all my own applications. I think that that it's just not a reality, right? Even if you could build it, maintaining it, evolving it, liability”
Arsalan Tavakoli Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 18:50 The Enterprise AI Reality Check: From Dashboard Graveyards to 30-Day Migrations with Databricks
Opinion
Tavakoli: Enterprise AI Adoption in Coding and Systems Remains Nascent
“You know, still how many of them actually properly adopted AI in the way of coding tools or like systems is pretty nascent.”
Arsalan Tavakoli Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 3:24 The Enterprise AI Reality Check: From Dashboard Graveyards to 30-Day Migrations with Databricks
Insight
Tavakoli: Enterprise AI Cannot Work Without Data Governance and Context
“The urgency of I need to kind of get my data state in order and governance around it and context has gone through the roof because people realize without that, they can't actually get AI to work in any meaningful way.”
Arsalan Tavakoli Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 5:45 The Enterprise AI Reality Check: From Dashboard Graveyards to 30-Day Migrations with Databricks
Insight
Tavakoli: Enterprise AI Context Resembles Employee Onboarding Knowledge, Not Raw Data
“Context is different than data. Think about it as you're onboarding a new employee. How do you explain Everything that goes on in your organization so they can operate effectively. How do you get back? Cause that's what agents are.”
Arsalan Tavakoli Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 6:59 The Enterprise AI Reality Check: From Dashboard Graveyards to 30-Day Migrations with Databricks
Disclosure
Tavakoli: A car manufacturer recently deployed Databricks Genie to 70,000 users
“We just had a, that car manufacturer just loaded on an extra 70,000 users. They all are going and asking their own questions of it, right?”
Arsalan Tavakoli Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 13:27 The Enterprise AI Reality Check: From Dashboard Graveyards to 30-Day Migrations with Databricks
Insight
Tavakoli: LLMs make legacy software and data migrations faster and cheaper
“But now you can send LLMs in because the beauty of code is self descriptive. It goes in, it understands what everything is doing and why, and then it can also very easily convert it. And then the key is like, how do you write harnesses to do validation and rec…”
Arsalan Tavakoli Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 25:47 The Enterprise AI Reality Check: From Dashboard Graveyards to 30-Day Migrations with Databricks

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The Enterprise AI Reality Check: From Dashboard Graveyards to 30-Day Migrations with Datab Jun 24, 2026 17m
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