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

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What Happened When You Moved to the States?

In Sweden, you grow up in a matter of three or four months. You start realizing you're your own boss now. So I think a couple of years in, maybe a year or two into college, it switched in my head. Okay, I do whatever I want now. And so then I started actually taking seriously, and I became extremely obsessed by academia,. Then suddenly, I was applying that kind of intensity to my education. He did like double degree at the same time and like went for the PhD and the MBA and all of that. But he still wanted to keep going. "I'm gonna stay in academia, right? We considered businesses the dark side"

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