Ali Ghodsi

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About Investor

Ali Ghodsi is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Databricks. He serves as chief executive of Databricks and has played a central role in commercializing open-source data and AI infrastructure originating from academic research. His expertise is concentrated in data platforms, cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and enterprise software. Their background is particularly relevant to founders building AI, machine-learning, data, and infrastructure products. They bring perspective on the technical and commercial challenges involved in turning complex technology into products that customers can adopt at scale. Their experience can be useful around product strategy, technical differentiation, enterprise adoption, hiring, and building defensible data or platform advantages. For founders, that combination of technical fluency and company-building experience can provide valuable context as an emerging technology moves from experimentation to a scalable business.