// PERSON
Jan Stoica
ROLE CO-FOUNDER & PROFESSORAT DATABRICKSMENTIONS 2LAST SEEN APRIL 27, 2026
// BIO
UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Databricks who presented the original pitch to A16Z.
// RECENT MENTIONS
// SIGNALS
2 SIGNALS
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mention·The a16z Show·APRIL 27, 2026
“The pitch was that Jan Stoica, who was a professor at Berkeley, presented the company. And the slides he made, it was like going to, like, a computer science lecture that you couldn't understand in college... Scott Schenker... called me and said, Ben, I have the best distributed systems guy that we've seen in the last 10 years in academia. His name is Matej Zaharias.”
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mention·The a16z Show·APRIL 27, 2026
“Jan Stoica, who was a professor at Berkeley, presented the company.”
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