Databricks has just raised $4 billion at $134 billion valuation. Its AI business is heating up

right now and people feel like the IPO window is starting to crack open. And this is why

Databricks may be getting itself ready for the moment when they're going to IPO very soon.

So we're going to get into all of that on the podcast today.

And before we do, I wanted to mention if you want to try all of the AI models I talk about

on this show, I'd love for you to try my own startup, which is AIbox.

I'll leave a link in the description.

You get access to models from Databricks, among a ton of other people's, tons of open source

models, tons of really cool image generators

you may not have tried before. You can test all of these models side by side. And for $20 a month,

you get access to all of them. Open AI, Google, Gemini, Grock 11 Labs for audio, tons of amazing

models. I'll leave a link in the description to AIbox.a.I. And I hope that saves you

some money. It feels like the market for IPOs is starting to warm up a little bit. It's obviously

gone through a long, cold winter where a lot of even the biggest companies, I mean, you could

talk about like Stripe and SpaceX, these massive companies that in the past traditionally

would have 100% IPOed by now have not.

But there are a bunch of startups that have started to IPO and they've seen some mixed

results on the public markets. In the past, this was the number one way that a company was

going to raise, you know, all their money. They needed to make it to an IPO. It was for investors.

It was for employees. But it feels like today there are a ton of

startups that have no intention of going public. They've been running as private companies. And I think

this makes a lot of sense today because right now you can raise insane amounts of money. I mean,

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