Ali Ghodsi
Iranian-Swedish-American computer scientist; co-founder and CEO of Databricks, UC Berkeley adjunct professor
Iranian-Swedish-American computer scientist; co-founder and CEO of Databricks, UC Berkeley adjunct professor
Every podcast episode featuring Ali Ghodsi that Attunex has found: 70 interviews and appearances across 38 shows between 2017 and 2026. Most often on a16z Live (16), The a16z Show (7) and TechCheck (6). Often in conversation with Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg and Sarah Wang. Follow Ali in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.
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Réfugié en Suède à cinq ans, programmeur par la grâce d'un ordinateur en panne, Ali Ghodsi a fait de Databricks l'une des entreprises privées les plus chères d'Amérique : Ada, Alan et Lia racontent…
本期「AI快递」深度解析 Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi 的 Sequoia Capital 访谈。他用亲身实践揭示了 AI 落地的关键现实：代码生成速度大幅提升，但需求沟通、测试环境、跨部门协作与生产部署，仍然决定着交付效率。 这也是一场关于组织、管理与战略的反共识讨论。从面对面建立信任，到高管招聘、企业销售和品类创新，Ghodsi…
本期 AI快递深度解析 Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi 在 a16z 的访谈：与其被人工智能末日论牵着走，企业更应正视已经迫在眉睫的现实风险——漏洞从公开到被武器化攻击的窗口，已从数年压缩到数小时。 节目也进一步拆解企业 AI 落地的关键：模型能力只是起点，真正决定价值的是能否将分散的数据、流程与隐性经验组织成具备权限感知的内部知识本体，让 AI…
Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi joins a16z General Partners Martin Casado and Sarah Wang for a conversation about AI risk, recursive self-improvement, cybersecurity, and what’s actually…
AI safety, in Ali Ghodsi’s view, is an engineering problem—not a panic campaign. In this condensed recap of the a16z Podcast, the hosts and Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi break down why he thinks today’s…
Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down OpenAI's new plan to track when things go wrong after revealing new cases of its AI models going off-script. Plus, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi and machine learning…
Ali Ghodsi never wanted the CEO job. In 2015, Databricks had a wildly successful open source project, $1.5 million in revenue, and a board quietly interviewing other candidates behind his back. He…
In 2013 a group of Berkeley researchers sat in my office in Silicon Valley asking for funding for an academic project called Spark. They were not on my calendar by accident. They were there because…
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi joins Squawk on the Street with new financials after closing a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation, discussing growth and a possible IPO timeline. Plus,…
Databricks Asked for $1B. Investors Offered $15B. Databricks set out to raise about $1 billion and closed at $5 billion on a $190 billion valuation, after investor demand reportedly reached $15…
In this solo season-three opener, Ellen recaps Databricks' 2026 Data + AI Summit, unpacking the keynote's core framework — Context, Control, Cost, and Choice — and CEO Ali Ghodsi's argument that AGI…
偉大なファウンダーCEOには、共通の「型」があるのでしょうか。マーク・ザッカーバーグ、イーロン・マスク、DatabricksのAli Ghodsi──三者三様で、見た目も性格もまったく異なります。ところがA16Z共同創業者のベン・ホロウィッツは、数百社への投資経験から「型はないが、共通点はある」と言い切ります。 今回は、Sequoia Capitalが運営するポッドキャスト「Long…
Part I: The Founders—Refugees, Programmers, and Dreamers Ali Ghodsi: From Tehran to UC Berkeley The story of Databricks begins, improbably, with a child’s flight from revolution. In 1984, when Ali…
Carlyle's Jeff Currie says even if the Iran war stops now, surging oil prices will impact the economy for months. Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi on his new cybersecurity product and AI disruption within…
Databricks announcing a new $5B funding round at a $134B valuation. Making the company the fourth largest private company in the U.S. We speak to CEO Ali Ghodsi about the company’s future and how AI…
听Databricks和Glean CEO拆解企业AI落地真相 本期博客翻译自Youtube知名博客Bg2 Pod：AI Enterprise - Databricks & Glean | BG2 Guest Interview 一、嘉宾介绍 Ali Ghodsi : Databricks 联合创始人兼 CEO。Databricks 是领先的数据与人工智能平台公司。 Arvind Jain :…
In this BG2 guest interview, Altimeter partner Apoorv Agrawal sits down with Ali Ghodsi (Databricks) and Arvind Jain (Glean) for a candid, operator-level discussion on what’s actually working in…
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Databricks—now valued at over $100 billion—is redefining the future of data and AI for enterprises worldwide. Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks, joins David Solomon, Chairman and CEO of…
تهران،۱۹۷۸. صدای بمبها. خانهای که لرزیده، یک پسربچه که به سقف خیره شده و نمیفهمه چرا دنیاش داره از هم میپاشه. چندسال بعد، ۱۹۸۴. یک خانواده، ۲۴ ساعت فرصت برای خروج از کشور. یک چمدان لباسهای…
Ben Horowitz founded Loudcloud in the middle of the dot-com bust and sold it for $1.6 billion, then led Andreessen Horowitz from its founding to $46 billion in committed capital. Ali Ghodsi…
Amazon has reached a $2.5 settlement with the FTC over accusations of deceptive practices locking consumers into Prime subscriptions. Plus, we talk to Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi in an exclusive…
Oracle just stunned Wall Street — a $455B backlog, a $300B OpenAI data-center deal, and a surge that puts Larry Ellison’s “legacy” company in the same league as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. What…
Firecrawl nabbed Shopify’s CEO Tobias Lütke as an investor from a gutsy email after they discovered he was using the product. Also, The round, which pushes Databricks' valuation to $100B, was co-led…
In this episode, Transform NOW co-hosts Brad Hairston and Michael Marchuk banter about some interesting recent news headlines in the world of automation and AI. . News stories covered in this…
AI just crashed primetime. Kalshi dropped a fully AI-generated ad during the NBA Finals — no cameras, no crew, just Google’s Veo model and a national TV slot. We talk to Kalshi’s Head of Growth on…
Bloomberg's Jackie Davalos and Tim Stenovec discuss JD Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference saying Europe is undermining democratic values. And, a conversation with Databricks CEO Ali…
Ali Ghodsi, Databricks CEO, joins Deirdre Bosa to discuss Databricks recent investment from Meta, and much more. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information…
Jamie Dimon says stock market valuations are high, is he right? We breakdown the next steps for the markets. Plus, VC heavyweight, Jim Breyer. The early Facebook investor – who predicted Nvidia’s…
CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa sits down with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi to talk its mega funding round, what it means for AI enthusiasm and more. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See…
Jonas Leijonhufvud och Henrik Ek svänger mellan himmel och helvete i dagens Digitalpodden. Först skärskådar de två rekonstruktioner i NA-KD och Eways och sen pratar de om vad som beskrivits som en av…
Could the 10-year yield climb as high as 6%? The bold rate call out of one Wall Street firm, and what it would mean for this year’s rally. Plus A new funding round from one of the most valuable…
Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks (now a $61B company), has become one of the top minds in AI, evolving from researcher to leading one of the biggest AI-centered private companies. In our conversation,…
Ali Ghodsi is the CEO and co-founder of Databricks, a leader in data and AI. He pioneered the data intelligence platform built on a lakehouse architecture, revolutionizing analytics and AI for global…
Ali Ghodsi is the CEO and co-founder of Databricks, a leader in data and AI. He pioneered the data intelligence platform built on a lakehouse architecture, revolutionizing analytics and AI for global…
George Fraser, CEO and co-founder of Fivetran, and Ali Ghodsi, CEO and co-founder of Databricks, are building products that power the modern data stack. They offer an insider’s perspective on the…
Summary of key themes and main points: 1. Databricks' origin: Databricks was developed to democratize AI and data technologies for all organizations. Its inception was a pivot from academic…
We were delighted to kick off the 2nd Cerebral Valley AI Summit with Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks, and Naveen Rao, co-founder of MosaicML. Their encounter at our debut event in March led to Ghodsi…
Guest: Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, CEO of Grammarly Driven by generative tools like ChatGPT, artificial intelligence is hot — but Grammarly CEO Rahul Roy-Chowdhury wishes that “AI” stood for something else:…
Today’s episode continues our coverage from a16z’s recent AI Revolution event. You’ll hear directly from a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Databricks cofounder and CEO, Ali Ghodsi as they answer…
Ali Ghodsi, CEO and cofounder of Databricks, and Ben Horowitz, cofounder of a16z, explain the data wars happening inside and outside enterprises and how they could impact the evolution of LLMs.…
The holy grail of company building is finding product-market fit. But what most people don’t tell you is that once you’ve found it, product-market fit brings its own set of challenges, particularly…
Guest: Bipul Sinha, co-founder and CEO of Rubrik When Bipul Sinha graduated from the Indian Insitute of Technology and came to America to work in tech, his mother told him: Don’t start a company. His…
Averages closed in the red, near the lows of the session. Neuberger Berman’s CIO breaks down the market action and gives his second half playbook. Eurasia Group President Iam Bremmer breaks down…
The holy grail of company building is finding product-market fit. But what most people don’t tell you is that once you’ve found it, product-market fit brings its own set of challenges, particularly…
In 2013, a team of academics at UC Berkeley was working to solve massive data challenges that were impacting the tech companies in their backyard. Fast-forward and that team now represents the…
“I literally thought to myself, I probably made the biggest mistake of my life taking this job.” That’s what Ali Ghodsi recalls about his decision step up the CEO role at Databricks, which would mean…
Listen to Data Brew: https://databricks.com/discover/data-brew/s1-e2-welcome-to-lakehouse Equity 101 for software engs: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/equity-for-software-engineers/
Die nächste Revolution im Cloud-Geschäft wird nicht von Microsoft oder Google getrieben – sondern von Unternehmen wie Databricks. Der US-Softwarekonzern hilft Unternehmen, gigantische Datenmengen in…
DataBricks CEO and cofounder, Ali Ghodsi, is back on the podcast for a third time, making him the most frequent guest we’ve had on the show. On this episode, courtesy of our recent enterprise…
Our anchors kick off today’s show with Bernstein Research Analyst Toni Sacconaghi on all things Apple as the company approaches a $3 trillion market cap. Then, we bring in The Information Reporter…
A lot of startups and SaaS companies that build a business around an open source technology struggle to commercialize in a way that is both profitable and scalable, while also supporting the open…
Several factors are driving explosive growth at a handful of cloud-native, B2B technology companies these days—and Databricks*, a high-profile decacorn which makes next-generation data-analytics…
To start off the show our anchors bring you all the details on Zoom earnings reported after the bell yesterday. Then, Deutsche Bank Director of Equity Research Matthew Niknam joins to further discuss…
Please join us in The BreakLine Arena for a conversation with Ali Ghodsi, CEO and Co-founder of Databricks. As Chief Executive Officer, Ali responsible for the growth and international expansion of…
Fab 5 Freddy on New York in the 70s, Warhol, Blondie, Basquiat, and Yo! MTV Raps [1:40]Contrarian strategy and challenging assumptions [5:12]Boring AI and solving meaningful problems [8:42]Drop-in…
What did Substack think about the NYTimes article "Why We’re Freaking Out About Substack" [1:01]What is Substack? [4:40]The issues with social media content models and how Substack is different…
Note: the recording of this episode starts a minute or two into the show. Ali recommends: The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz [0:18]Ben recommends: High Output Management by Andy Grove…
What is AI? [2:27]AI is statistics, not consciousness [7:05]Why then so much talk about the singularity? [12:12]AI breakthroughs and FAANGs [17:21]Building the AI toolchain [26:07]AI applications in…
Boss Talk is the Clubhouse show where a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi, the Founder/CEO of Databricks, discuss CEO stuff, leadership stuff, management stuff... boss stuff. Live every…
On this episode of Boss Talk: How do the best product marketers see and explain a trend?How much is the best marketing truth vs. spin?Does the marketing function create the strategy or execute on…
When Ben and Marc started a16z, CAA and its founder Michael Ovitz served as inspiration for how to break into an industry dominated by a few large incumbents. In 1975, a few large talent agencies…
Ali Ghodsi is the CEO and Co-Founder of Databricks, an AI-enabled, open source data analytics platform company, valued today at more than $28 billion. Over 5,000 companies use the company’s open…
This week on Boss Talk: Why aren't there more academic CEOs? Should early stage companies hire junior or senior engineers? What are the common mistakes high growth companies make, especially when…
Ben and Ali are joined by guest Shaka Senghor, who after 20 years in prison, became an author and activist for prison reform, an entrepreneur, and most recently, head of diversity, equity, and…
In this discussion from our recent enterprise conference FC BUILD, Ashu interviews Databricks founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi. A rather unconventional company, Databricks began as an open-source project…
Pricing has huge implications for market size. How do you know if the price isn't right? And when a customer says something is too expensive, what are they really telling you? Also on Boss Talk #6:…
In 2013, a team of academics at UC Berkeley was working to solve massive data challenges that were impacting the tech companies in their backyard. Fast-forward and that team now represents the…
For some cloud software companies, they don't just build on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, they compete with them. So, how do you stay ahead when competing in the cloud? a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and…
How do you keep internal politics in check? How do you know when an employee is not working? And how do you maintain culture as you grow? Those questions and more on the fourth episode of Boss Talk,…
Boss Talk is a weekly live show on Clubhouse, where a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi discuss CEO stuff, leadership stuff, management stuff… you know, boss stuff. Here we…
Ali shares his early experiences as an Iranian refugee growing up in Sweden and what he learned about leadership. Plus, how technical founders can support and understand sales leaders, striking the…
Conway’s Law, how to be a boss of bosses, Silicon Valley post-pandemic, and more on the second episode of Boss Talk. The Clubhouse show where a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi, the…
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The first episode of the new Clubhouse show Boss Talk, where a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi, the Founder/CEO of Databricks, discuss CEO stuff, leadership stuff, management stuff... boss…
My Guest today is Ali Ghodsi, founder and CEO of Databricks, a data analytics platform for data scientists and developers. He's also the founder of Apache Spark, the open-source project that…
Ali Ghodsi is the Founder & CEO @ Databricks, bringing together data engineering, science and analytics on an open, unified platform so data teams can collaborate and innovate faster. To date, Ali…
Legacy approaches have failed to deliver on the promise of a single data architecture that can support every downstream use case from BI to AI. Lakehouse aspires to address this by combining the best…
Data, data, data – it’s long been a buzzword in the industry, whether big data, streaming data, data analytics, data science, even AI & machine learning — but data alone is not enough: it takes an…
Data warehouses alone don't cut it. Data lakes alone don't cut it either. So whether you call it data lakehouse or by any other name, you need the best of both worlds, says Databricks. A new query…
On this episode, we have Ali Ghodsi, cofounder and CEO of Databricks, a cloud platform for massive scale data engineering and collaborative data science. For the first third of the podcast, Ali tells…
Today, despite the critical importance of open source to software, it’s still seen by some as blasphemous to make money as an open source business. In this podcast, Armon Dadgar, Cofounder and CTO of…
Many technology CEOs come from the nation’s top business schools, or emerge from Silicon Valley garages. Others come by way of Iran, Sweden and the University of California at Berkeley’s…
I sat down with Ali Ghodsi, CEO and found of Databricks, and John Chirapurath, GM for Data Platform Marketing at Microsoft related to the recent announcement of Azure Databricks. When I heard about…