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Competing in the Cloud on Boss Talk with Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi

Mar 11, 2021

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Is Open Source the Right Strategy for Your Customers?

04:10

The Problem With Hyper Optimisation

02:10

Ithi, You Shouldn't Build a Big Market

01:38

Introduction

1min

How Do You Implement the Truth Trying Cultural Value?

2min

The Culture of Hypocrisy in a Company

3min

Data Bricks - How Do You Deal With a Cloud Vendor?

3min

Then Amazon and Microsopor, You Know?

2min

Then Microsot and Amazon and Sales Force as Investors?

3min

How Do You Overcome the Challenge?

4min

Yeno Giding, I'm Building My Career at Data Bricks

4min

The Problem With Hyper Optimisation

2min

10.

Do You Give Up Market by Doing It?

2min

11.

Data Bricks, Is That a Bad Strategy?

2min

12.

The Only Time You Really Add Value as a Leader

2min

13.

Why Darobick Succeeded in the Cloud?

2min

14.

Is Open Source the Right Strategy for Your Customers?

4min

15.

Is Open Source a Bad Idea?

2min

16.

How to Micro Manage a New Executive?

5min

17.

Is There a Leadership Team Dynamics?

3min

18.

Do You Have a Culture Match?

2min

19.

Slash Mentoring - Why Don't You Go?

4min

20.

Recruiting Machine Learning

2min

21.

What Don't You Want to Buy From Us?

3min

22.

Ithi, You Shouldn't Build a Big Market

2min

23.

The Internet Is Going to Be Bigger Than You Think

2min

24.

We Are Up on the Hour. Thank You Everyone

25sec

For some cloud software companies, they don't just build on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, they compete with them. So, how do you stay ahead when competing in the cloud? a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi, the Founder/CEO of Databricks, cover that, as well as getting product-market fit on your second product, why it's difficult to do both on-prem and cloud software, the importance of making the right unpopular decision, and how to know if a potential exec hire is a cultural fit on this episode of Boss Talk – the Clubhouse show where a16z cofounder Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi, the Founder/CEO of Databricks, discuss CEO stuff, leadership stuff, management stuff... boss stuff.