Aaron Katz
Aaron Katz is the co-founder and CEO of ClickHouse, Inc., a real-time analytics database company. He previously served as Chief Revenue Officer at Elastic, where he helped lead the open-source company from approximately $15 million to over $500 million in revenue through its IPO, and spent twelve years in senior sales leadership roles at Salesforce. He is best known for commercializing the ClickHouse open-source project, originally developed internally at Yandex, into an independent company serving enterprise customers including Microsoft, Walmart, and Lyft.
“If you ask Anthropic how they chose to use ClickHouse, they'll tell you they asked Claude. What technology should we use for this specific observability use case? And Claude suggested ClickHouse.”
Source→“Our Anthropic spend is up 100 times from what it was at the beginning of the year.”
Source→“I just thought it was going to be a lot easier to follow the Datadog playbook than the Snowflake playbook.”
Source→“If you look at Harvey, for example, I know they're, I think, leading the category in terms of specialization.”
Source→“Our most recent one earlier this year was Langfuse out of Berlin, which is three incredible founders entering agent observability.”
Source→“We both know Lin at Fireworks... yeah, we're 30%, 35%. We hope to be more over time.”
Source→“He was such an incredible marketer that he created this perception in the industry that some of the largest companies in the world could adopt this technology.”
Source→“Mike was an operator, worked at Cisco for a long time, ran CorpDev. I think he did over 100 acquisitions.”
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→“We did a financing earlier this year and then we extended it and brought in some strategic investors like yourself and David Sachs and Michael Dell and JP Morgan.”
Source→“Microsoft's one of our power users. We power the largest analytical workloads at Microsoft.”
Source→“I like the post this morning from Aaron Katz at ClickHouse, who said that their AI spend is up 60x since February.”
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