How to raise $5 billion
My chat with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi. Also: Google's morale problem, AI computer use is going to be big, and more.
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The trick to raising $5 billion, according to Ali Ghodsi, is not to plan on raising $5 billion.
Databricks was heads down preparing for its Data + AI Summit in June when The Information called to say it was about to report that the company was raising money at a $175 billion valuation. “We were just scratching our heads,” Ghodsi told me Thursday. Databricks asked the publication not to print the story. It did anyway.
Then Ghodsi’s phone blew up.
