Databricks just passed a $7B run rate, growing 80% YoY. @bhorowitz first recruited @databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko when it was a tiny company. Ron told me the pitch: "He said, I have this little company. It's probably smaller than any company you're looking at. But it's got the most upside of any company in my whole portfolio at a16z. It's called Databricks. Maybe you can meet these guys and recommend someone they should hire. I met the founders and just hit it off. These guys are smarter than anybody on the planet. Their brains work in a different way. And they just understood the space. I thought data and AI was the future. So I decided to take a big swing at it. Ben was super funny. He said, these guys invented the greatest piece of software on the planet, and gave it away for free. I need somebody to come in and help them build a business out of it."