Data is the new oil is a terrible analogy. Oil is valuable because it's scarce. Data is valuable because it's abundant.

datatechnologyAli Ghodsi, Databricks CEO, Data + AI Summit 2022

We built Spark because we were frustrated users ourselves. The best companies come from people solving their own problems.

startupsinnovationMatei Zaharia, Databricks co-founder, interview 2021

The lakehouse is not about combining two things. It's about eliminating the need to choose between them in the first place.

technologyinnovationAli Ghodsi, Databricks keynote 2023

Open source is not charity. It's the most effective go-to-market strategy ever invented for enterprise software.

open-sourcebusinessAli Ghodsi, interview with Forbes 2023

If you make something 100x faster, you don't just do the same things faster — you do entirely different things.

technologyinnovationMatei Zaharia on Apache Spark, academic talk 2014

Every company is becoming a data company whether they like it or not. We just make it less painful.

databusinessAli Ghodsi, Data + AI Summit 2024
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