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

Grit

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Are You a Control Freak?

"I'm a control freak. I like to know the inputs to everything," he says. "When you have chaos early on in your life, your default state is to go to control" His son was diagnosed with cancer and went through chemotherapy for a year. He's now okay; does it make him more humble? "It kind of gets you to realize that life is fragile, even from the beginning."

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