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10 quotes from Ali Ghodsi

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Date	Quote	Context	Source
Aug 13, 2026	Enterprises don't just want AI that talks. They want agents working across their business that remember context, deliver accurate answers, and execute work without blowing through their budgets...Ali GhodsiAug 13, 2026· Statement	StatementDatabricks surpasses $7B revenue run-rate (Databricks press release)	Source
Jul 16, 2026	Enterprises are moving from tokenmaxxing to valuemaxxing.Ali GhodsiJul 16, 2026· Statement	StatementDatabricks strategic funding round (Databricks press release)	Source
Jun 16, 2026	If you're a CFO and AI can't tell you why margins changed, or you're a sales leader, and it can't find your next upsell, that's not an AI problem, that's a context problem.Ali GhodsiJun 16, 2026· Statement	StatementDatabricks launches Genie One (Databricks press release)	Source
Jun 16, 2026	Most enterprise AI today is just guessing with false confidence. That is not good enough for business...Ali GhodsiJun 16, 2026· Statement	StatementDatabricks launches Genie One (Databricks press release)	Source
Jun 16, 2026	Then agents arrived. In a matter of months, organizations effectively doubled their workforce, just not with humans. Agents write code, make calls, and run loops at a pace human teams never could.Ali GhodsiJun 16, 2026· Statement	StatementDatabricks launches LTAP (Databricks press release)	Source
Mar 24, 2026	Security teams can no longer rely on manual workflows to outpace AI-driven attacks...Ali GhodsiMar 24, 2026· Statement	StatementDatabricks launches Lakewatch (Databricks press release)	Source
Mar 11, 2026	We're moving from a world where data professionals are assisted by AI to one where AI agents do the work, guided by humans. We are calling this Agentic Data Work. It will fundamentally change how enterprises make decisions.Ali GhodsiMar 11, 2026· Statement	StatementDatabricks launches Genie Code (Databricks press release)	Source
Jun 12, 2025	Every piece of software in the world, every application, every workflow, every AI-generated line of code ultimately depends on a database underneath. Along the way, we’ve completely reinvented how applications are built, but the underlying databases have changed very little since the 1980s.Ali GhodsiJun 12, 2025· Post	PostA New Era of Databases: Lakebase (co-authored)	Source
Jun 11, 2025	With the right investment and the right tools, we will see more AI innovation in this next generation than all previous generations combined.Ali GhodsiJun 11, 2025· Statement	StatementDatabricks launches Free Edition (Databricks press release)	Source
May 14, 2025	Neon proves it: four out of every five databases on their platform are spun up by code, not humans.Ali GhodsiMay 14, 2025· Statement	StatementDatabricks agrees to acquire Neon (Databricks press release)	Source

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