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Ali Ghodsi

Company: Databricks Revenue: US $ 6.9bn Founded: 2013

A Co-Founder of Databricks, Ali has led the firm as CEO since 2016, and has been instrumental in the firm’ s growth and international expansion across its 13-year history. Prior to his appointment as CEO, he first acted as the company’ s VP of Engineering and Product Management. What began as a research project at the University of California, Berkeley, Ali and his co-founders developed into a commercial platform. With Ali in the executive seat, Databricks has become a multibillion-dollar enterprise that supports thousands of global companies, supporting them with software, AI and cloud platforms. 38 September 2026