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Jessica Mathews

EXPLAINED: How databricks became an a i sensation | Vintage Vibes

Silhouettes of Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi on gray background with Databricks logo. (Credit: Brad Barket—Getty Images for Fast Company; David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images; Logo Courtesy of Databricks)

Ben Horowitz says it was one of the worst pitch decks he has ever seen.

It was 2013, and the Databricks team—a group of seven data scientists and professors—were working out of a room in an office building adjacent to the University of California Berkeley campus when Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz, arrived for their meeting.

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