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#109 Co-founder & CEO, Databricks Ali Ghodsi: The Difference Between Truth and Data

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Did Ben Pound the Table for You to Be CEO?

At 15, we felt the pressure already. What are you doing with the numbers? You're not doing this right. So then we were spending a lot of energy trying to figure out how do we actually scale the machine. And I think that was going on for 15, 16, we did 13 million ARR from like two. At that point, any I had already put the series B in, correct? Yeah. But yeah, Ben was really dropping the F bombs in every sentence and really cranking up the volume, like just to a completely different level. After the fact, he's told people that, you know, who knew if he was going to really work out with him

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