Ali Ghodsi
CEO of Databricks who met MosaicML's founder at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit, leading to the $1.3B acquisition.
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“Ali Ghodsi told Newcomer this summer that by the time Databricks released its own open-weight foundation model in 2024, he was ready to move on.”
Source→“the AI can know a lot about the world but know very little about your company... the chopping block of AI framework.”
Source→“I think that superintelligence, that idea from that book is very, very far away. I don't see any evidence that we're actually marching towards that.”
Source→“Ben Horowitz... co-presenting with Ghodsi at RSA on the cyber/data/AI market convergence.”
Source→“We have a product in the market, in the detection market, Lakewatch, that helps you do detections.”
Source→“We could have got the price much, much, much higher if we wanted to... drew ~$20B of demand for a $5B raise”
Source→“I'm like, it feels like you guys are ready to go public. And he said, I kind of basically run a public company.”
Source→“This is rare documented evidence that conference deal-flow can operate at the highest tiers of the market — not just seed introductions. "Databricks' Ali Ghodsi famously bought a unicorn startup out of our first event and returned for a victory lap a few months later."”
Source→“"Databricks' Ali Ghodsi famously bought a unicorn startup out of our first event and returned for a victory lap a few months later."”
Source→“Databricks' strategic pivot away from building proprietary models toward commoditizing them reflects a broader market shift — infrastructure players are positioning to extract durable value by making models interchangeable. "He's abandoned his in-house model ambitions and is increasingly in the business of commoditizing model companies."”
Source→“Databricks CEO Ghodsi said in June it would be a 'terrible year' to go public”
Source→“CEO Ali Ghodsi said in early June it would be a 'terrible year' to go public given the crowded IPO calendar, effectively deferring to 2027.”
Source→“CEO Ali Ghodsi said in early June it would be a 'terrible year' to go public given the crowded IPO calendar, effectively deferring to 2027.”
Source→“Ali Ghodsi — CEO of Databricks. Named by Shiv as an idol for strategic market navigation.”
Source→“Databricks' acquisition of MosaicML for $1.3 billion came after Ali Ghodsi met Naveen Rao at our first Cerebral Valley AI Summit.”
Source→“Databricks' acquisition of MosaicML for $1.3 billion came after Ali Ghodsi met Naveen Rao at our first Cerebral Valley AI Summit.”
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