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

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Oct 24, 2022
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Ali Ghodsi
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Joubin
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
What Was Your First Job?
03:02 • 2min
3
How Did You End Up in Sweden?
04:49 • 2min
4
Did You Ever Go Back to Sweden?
07:06 • 2min
5
What Do You Think of America?
09:13 • 2min
6
Is There Aura About You?
11:14 • 2min
7
Do You Have Databricks?
13:12 • 2min
8
Are You a Control Freak?
14:57 • 3min
9
The Fastest Person Ever Finishes a PhD?
17:43 • 2min
10
You Think You've Lost Control of Your Body?
20:03 • 2min
11
You Can't Control Your Own Body, Right?
22:01 • 2min
12
What Happened When You Moved to the States?
24:30 • 3min
13
How Long Did It Take You to Come Back to UC Berkeley?
27:14 • 2min
14
Databricks - What Was the Innovation From the Research?
28:49 • 2min
15
Databricks - What's the Coolest Use Case?
31:16 • 3min
16
What's the Turing Test?
33:48 • 2min
17
Series a Drops the Bag
36:02 • 2min
18
Rippling - What Advice Would You Give to All the Aspiring Founders?
38:09 • 2min
19
How Long Did It Take You to Get to Like a Million ARR?
39:46 • 2min
20
Did Ben Pound the Table for You to Be CEO?
41:47 • 2min
21
How Did You Decide to Be CEO?
43:35 • 2min
22
How Did You Learn to Be a CEO?
45:30 • 3min
23
Do You Have Heroes That You Want to Steal?
48:26 • 2min
24
Theatobix's Raised 3 and a Half Billion Dollars?
50:46 • 2min
25
Do You Hire the Right People?
52:55 • 2min
26
Are You Like That With Everything?
54:57 • 2min
27
Do You Have a Hard Time Putting Deposits In?
57:14 • 2min
28
How Much Time Do You Spend on Hiring?
59:11 • 3min
29
Are You Hiring Databricks?
01:02:31 • 2min