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Insight VC describes Databricks’ wild $10B deal and the bad advice the CEO ignored


It’s been a wild week for investors clawing their way into Databricks' record-breaking $10 billion fund raising, one of the VCs told TechCrunch.

It’s been a wild week for investors clawing their way into Databricks’ record-breaking $10 billion fund raising, one of the VCs leading the deal told TechCrunch. Databricks cofounder and CEO Ali Ghodsi (pictured) sought out advice from Mathew, who had run big data company Alteryx as COO before becoming a VC. Flash forward to the end of 2024, with an IPO market still locked and investors dying to get a piece of AI infrastructure products, like data warehouses that can serve LLMs.

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