Turner Novak 🍌🧢 @TurnerNovak
investing @BananaCap_ podcasting @ThePeelPod (sign-up for emails below) thespl.it Ann Arbor, MI DM’s open Joined April 2009-
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.@databricks CRO on the real reason enterprises still struggle with AI adoption: "Everybody has an FDE model now, but they need help wiring it all together. It's not simple. The biggest challenge is the data. Everybody knows the data is the key to these enterprise use cases. But in a lot of cases, the data isn't in the right place. It's all over the place, in legacy systems, old formats, proprietary formats. Getting your data into a good place to attach AI is a tough, complicated problem that they're using Databricks for."
@JunaidAckroyd That’s the entire @BananaCap_ portfolio
.@Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on why open source users won't just buy from you: "We tried PLG first. We thought customers would just come to us and ask to buy. It wasn't working. Customers in open source don't really want to buy anything. You have to ask them what they're willing to pay for. If I get my support question answered, I'm good to go. PLG is people coming to you. Sales is you going to them. It's the opposite. Salespeople open doors. That said, if you have a great PLG motion like ours, with tons of people coming in the door, you still need salespeople to go sell them the thing you actually monetize."
.@databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on turning millions of open source users into a $190B business: "There were literally millions of people using Spark. That was the open source product, early days. First, we just said: go meet with as many Spark users as possible. Understand how they're using it, what their challenges are, and what they'd pay for. It wasn't rocket science. Then you look for the trends. People will pay for security. People will pay for scalability. So you start adding those features as a paid layer on top of the open source. Early days we were selling to Silicon Valley digital-native startups. With open source, they love building their own stuff. But when you go to enterprise, they don't have the expertise to build large open source projects. They need partners. They need a managed service. So our break into enterprise was a really big step in how we scaled the company."
@Moneymamba Huge, congrats Nabeel!
@JacquelineSYC19 Wish I was qualified for the AE role
@nancy_y_chen Wish I could make this
The greatest men scroll X for 14 hours per day instead
One of the greatest viruses of the modern man is looking at Instagram Stories. You will melt your brain looking at a barrage of outcomes—like vacations, parties, cars—with no visibility of the process that got them there.
@saradu Imagine running inference here
@gazar47 1,000+ years management experience or bust
New trend: solo founders or 7 co-founders Anything in the middle you're NGMI
Is having seven co-founders a nightmare? @databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko says the opposite after scaling from $1M to $7B ARR in 10 years: "I get this a lot, especially from CROs. They say, I can only handle one founder, how do you handle seven? I think it's a massive advantage.
@contextconor This ishow you go zero to $100B ARR in two minutes
@pandemona @particleapi So many cool features! Going to take advantage of a bunch of these for @ThePeelPod
@varunram “Speed is everything” so true
How Databricks leveraged a16z to get its first big enterprise customers and go from $1M to $7B ARR in 10 years: "a16z is a little special. They have relationships with the CIOs of some of the biggest enterprises on the planet. They'd invite the CIO of a company like Apple or Capital One in for a Silicon Valley Day, and show them ten portfolio companies. We'd get thirty minutes to demo. The mistake startups make is sending a junior salesperson. I did most of those myself. I get to pitch my product to the CIO of a huge company. And most of the time, they're so thankful you took the time that they'll give you a POC or a small land. Now you're in the door, with a big logo. So go pitch those yourself. 'Can you intro me to XYZ' is less valuable. I'd rather target fewer companies where I can actually add value. We landed a bunch of our biggest customers that way."
BREAKING: LP's have begun training the fly brain to invest a venture capital fund, already tracking at top decile returns
Don't think this has been disclosed anywhere else before, but TIL Databricks' AI coworker product called Genie has millions of active users
.@databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko runs the entire $7B ARR sales org on his own product, and can predict revenue within one or two percent: "For an enterprise, how do you make decisions? It's all about the context of your data, and attaching that to AI. So we built a product called
@ashebytes typos are what blockchain always wanted to be
Hiring 40 sales reps in a single quarter has to be a record
Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko broke all the rules growing from $1M to $7B ARR. First one was hiring 40 sales reps in his first quarter. "It was a funny story. All day Wednesday and Thursday, all I'm doing is interviews. I told them, you've at least got to give me a break to go to
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