Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a Billion-Dollar Business
Episode
64 min
Read time
2 min
Topics
Relationships, Startups, Fundraising & VC
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What It Covers
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi and Ben Horowitz discuss building a hundred billion dollar company, including the 2016 leadership crisis, Microsoft partnership strategy, and scaling high-performance culture.
Notable Moment
Ben Horowitz convinced Ali not to sell Databricks by explaining he would spend his life wondering what could have been if he didn't take the company all the way.
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