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Ali Ghodsi

CEO & Co-Founder at Databricks

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Biography

CEO and co-founder of Databricks, the $62B data and AI platform company. Former UC Berkeley researcher who co-created Apache Spark, now building the unified data intelligence platform for enterprise AI.

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Ghodsi played the long game better than almost anyone in enterprise tech. While everyone was distracted by chatbots, he built the data layer that every enterprise AI deployment actually needs. The $62B valuation isn't AI hype — it's the recognition that Databricks owns the plumbing. The Mosaic ML acquisition and open-source model strategy (DBRX) are smart bets that the enterprise wants AI capabilities without total dependence on frontier model providers.

Updated May 2026
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Databricks
CEO & Co-Founder
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UC Berkeley
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Apache Spark
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