Ali is a big reason why I joined Databricks.
I was planning to build another startup. Then @alighodsi kept calling me. He’s honestly the best founder I’ve met, and I’ve met a lot.
I was like, “Shit, if I want to build another startup, I should learn from this guy.”
I haven’t regretted joining Databricks. I'm still learning a lot from Ali every day.
Ali Ghodsi never wanted to be CEO. In 2015, he was interviewing for a professor job at Berkeley when the @Databricks board handed him the interim title. Revenue...