Ali Ghodsi (Databricks) - Lessons from a Large Founding Team

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

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🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Ali Ghodsi is the CEO and co-founder of Databricks, a leader in data and AI. He pioneered the data intelligence platform built on a lakehouse architecture, revolutionizing analytics and AI for global organizations. Prior to becoming CEO, he served as the VP of engineering and product management. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Ghodsi Shares lessons he’s learned from being one of seven co-founders at Databricks and leading a company that began with open-source software.

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0:00.0	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.
0:04.0	Brought to you by Stanford Ecorner.
0:07.0	Welcome everybody to the Entrepreneurals Thought Leader seminar at Stanford University,
0:11.0	the Stanford Seminar for Aspiring Entrepreneurs.
0:15.0	ETL is presented by STVP, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center,
0:20.0	and Basis, the Business Association
0:22.7	of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students.
0:24.2	I'm Ravi Blani, a lecture in the Management Science
0:26.6	and Engineering Department at Stanford,
0:28.3	and the director of Alchemist and Accelerator
0:30.2	for Enterprise Startups.
0:31.7	And today, I have the pleasure of welcoming
0:33.5	Ali Goadsie to ETL.
0:36.3	Ollie is an adjunct professor in computer science at UC Berkeley and the CEO and co-founder of
0:40.8	Databricks, a leader in data and AI.
0:43.1	How many people are familiar with Databricks in general?
0:45.3	Okay, fantastic.
0:46.3	So, Ali was born in Iran during the country's revolution, and later his family, who were
0:52.8	part of the opposition, fled to Sweden to escape persecution during the Iran-Iraq War.
0:58.9	He learned to code as a kid, just as a hobby, on a Commodore 64.
1:03.8	And then he went on to study and got an MBA and a master's in computer engineering from Mid-Sweden University in Sweden.
1:10.3	And then a PhD in three years in computer science from KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology,
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