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Databricks

The AI Era · 2020s — one of the 100 companies on the MogulSpin reels.

The legends

Ali Ghodsi — From Spark to Lakehouse

Co-founder & CEO

Co-founder & CEO
Helped create Apache Spark
Scaled Databricks to a top private valuation

Matei Zaharia

Created Apache Spark
Co-founder & CTO

Ion Stoica

Berkeley professor
Serial founder (also Anyscale, Conviva)

Reynold Xin

Co-founder
Top Spark contributor

Also on the roster

Patrick Wendell · Andreessen Horowitz

When Databricks lands on your reels, these are the people you draft — Visionary, Operator, Builder, Financier, one irreversible lock at a time. How few companies in the world will be worth more than yours?

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