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Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast.

I'm Sonal.

Today, general partner Peter Levine and I are chatting with Jan Stoica, who's a director

of the new RISE lab at UC Berkeley, formerly known as AMP Lab, where he was the co-director

and which we've talked a bit about on this podcast.

Jan also founded Databricks and served as its CEO for the first few years and has played a seminal

role in multiple startups that have come out of the Berkeley data analytics or badass stack.

So we wanted to get his thoughts on the ingredients of successful labs given the evolution of academia

research and industry, as well as discuss open source and the role of community and what comes

next after big data given AI.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me.

Jan, you've played super interesting roles both on the academic front and on the commercial

front.

And often those two areas are often in conflict with one another.

And you're one of these people who has very successfully

sort of embodied those two different characteristics. How do you do that? And what do you think

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