Technical, engineering-led company with massive growth. Values open-source contributions and innovation.
Discovery Questions
Tailored questions to ask on your call, based on research findings:
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“How is Databricks positioning the lakehouse vs. traditional data warehouses like Snowflake?”
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“With MosaicML, what's your strategy for enterprise LLM training and deployment?”
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“How important is open source to customer acquisition and product strategy?”
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“What role does Unity Catalog play in data governance and security?”
Talking Points
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Ali Ghodsi has academic roots (Berkeley) and values technical excellence and open source
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Lakehouse architecture is their core differentiator vs. Snowflake - understand the positioning
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MosaicML acquisition shows aggressive AI/LLM strategy
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Open source contributions (Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow) are central to brand identity
About
Databricks provides a unified analytics platform for data engineering, data science, and machine learning. The company pioneered the lakehouse architecture combining data lakes and data warehouses. Founded by the creators of Apache Spark, Databricks is a leading competitor to Snowflake.
Target market: Data teams at enterprises building data infrastructure, analytics, and AI/ML applications
Tech Stack
Core
Languages
Infrastructure
AI/ML
Hiring Signals
By Department
Primary Focus: Expanding Engineering team
Recent News
Competitive Landscape
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