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  1. Sequoia Capital1h 15m

    Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi Never Wanted to Be CEO. Now He’s Among the Best

    Ali Ghodsi, Ben Horowitz, Brian Armstrong

    Since 2015, CEO Ali Ghodsi has guided Databricks from a $1.5 million revenue startup to a market leader by pivoting from product-led growth to an aggressive enterprise sales motion under CRO Ron Gabsco. This strategic overhaul involved replacing technical hires with emotionally intelligent sales leaders and relentlessly championing the controversial "Lakehouse" architecture to undermine competitor Snowflake on cost and AI integration. Ghodsi now applies similar principles of multi-year focus and internal AI integration to manage organizational scaling, prioritizing long-term market transformation over short-term public market pressures.