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Ali Ghodsi

Co-founder and CEO of Databricks

Companies: DatabricksUniversity of California, Berkeley
Education: KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMid Sweden UniversityUniversity of California - Berkeley
Based in: San Francisco
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Ali Ghodsi

Ali Ghodsi co-founded and leads Databricks, bringing distributed-systems research into tools for enterprise data and AI.

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Databricks

Jan 2016 — Present

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Co-founded Databricks, initially led engineering and product management, and became CEO in January 2016.

Co-founder and Chief Executive OfficerDatabricks · Jan 2016 — Present

University of California, Berkeley

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Adjunct Associate Professor

Adjunct Associate ProfessorUniversity of California, Berkeley · Until Present

Hive Streaming

Jan 2006 — Jan 2011

Co-founder and Adviser

Co-founder and AdviserHive Streaming · Jan 2006 — Jan 2011

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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Mid Sweden University

Master's studies

University of California - Berkeley

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Databricks & the Future of the Firm

Profile of Databricks and its CEO on databases, agents, and the future of organizations. Published October 27, 2026.

Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi: How to Run a $100 Billion Business

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Databricks’ Growth Journey and Lessons in Leadership

Ali Ghodsi talks with Max Schireson about turning a research project into a company, hiring experts, and finding differentiated products.

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Free Dolly: Building an Open Instruction-Tuned Language Model

Ali and his co-authors describe how Databricks employees created an original instruction dataset for Dolly 2.0, and explain their case for openly available models and training data.

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