# Ali Ghodsi
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ali ghodsi is a computer scientist and entrepreneur specializing in distributed systems and big data. He is a co-founder and CEO of Databricks and an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley. Ideas from his academic research, in the area of resource management and scheduling and data caching, have been applied in popular open source projects such as Apache Mesos, Apache Spark, and Apache Hadoop.
RSAC 2026 Recap: Agentic AI, the Death of the SIEM, and 22-Second Breakouts
In 2022, the median time between initial access and the secondary threat hand-off was 8 hours. At RSAC 2026, Mandiant put the new number on the main stage: 22 seconds. That one stat explains everything that got announced in San Francisco this year.
This episode of Tech Updates is a full RSAC 2026 r…
Three Models Drop: Grok 4.5, Meta Muse & GPT-5.6 Sol (Which Nuked a Business) | This Week In AI
Three model drops, a lawsuit, and a couple of genuine horror stories. Shane and Abhi cover the busiest week in a while — Grok 4.5, Meta's Muse Spark 1.1, and the one everyone actually tried, GPT-5.6 Sol.
Sol lands right around Fable on the benchmarks at a third the price, and the receipts are wild…
10AM Hour: Databricks CEO on New Funding Round & IPO Timeline, Bullish CEO Tom Farley, Shippers Detail Hormuz Disruption 8/13/26
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, Bullish CEO Tom Farley weighs in on the beaten-down crypto market after the exchange’s latest results. …
Databricks Asked for $1B. Investors Offered $15B.
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 billion. The confirmed facts — the raise size and the valuation — were reported independently by Bloomber…
Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi Never Wanted to Be CEO. Now He’s Among the Best
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 got the seat as a trial run. They didn't even give him a CEO salary. When I had Ben Horowitz on this p…
OpenAI Reports New AI Safety Incidents; AI CEOs Weigh In on AI Debate
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 pioneer Andrew Ng weigh in on the global AI safety debate; meanwhile in Silicon Valley, the immediate f…
Databricks CEO on AI Pacing, Cyber Risk, and the Enterprise
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 holding back enterprise adoption.
Ali argues that today’s models are already capable enough to automate …
Ali Ghodsi – The Past, Present, and Future of Big Data – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.18]
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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 Databricks is built on, and is an accomplished researcher at UC Berkley's computer science department. Our c…
An 86-minute guide to finding PMF | Rob Snyder (Author, The Power of Pull)
Rob Snyder is the author of The Power of Pull and writes the newsletter The Physics of Startups. He has advised more than 50 startups on growing from zero to $1 million in ARR, drawing on his own experience as a founder who spent two years pushing a product the market didn’t want before accidentall…
What Does Ali Ghodsi Know And How Databricks is Winning The AI Game | Rajkumar Sen, Arcion Labs
If data is gold then what are Databases?Rajkumar Sen built Arcion Labs on an H-1B, nearly shut multiple times and then sold to Databricks. In this conversation Raj shares behind the scenes details of his 8 years journey from idea to starting up to fundraising to exiting and every challenge faced in…
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