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Ben Horowitz cosigned the Databricks co-founders in 2013, when they were Berkeley academics. " When I met with them, they were like, 'We need to raise $200,000.'" "I said, 'I'm not gonna write you a check for $200,000. I'll write you a check for $10 million.'" "You need to...

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a16z3 gün önce

w/ @lennysan on Lenny's Podcast (Sep 2025)

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Max Bern3 gün önce

Asked for 200k and he said "here's $10m become a company." Not sure if that'd scare or excite me.

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richard3 gün önce

w story

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NotaDEV3 gün önce

most of us are still waiting on the 200k, let alone the 50x version

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Abhishek kothari3 gün önce

Wild that the investor had to talk the founders into a bigger swing. What did he see in the Databricks team that they hadn’t seen in themselves yet?

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Youth3 gün önce

The scarce skill after the capability jump is still falsification, not more drafts.

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sofi e,3 gün önce

Thanks for sharing this

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Larry Pu3 gün önce

Raising too little money could extremely limit the runway, which can result in failure of company. Investors know that

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Bobby3 gün önce

Semper Fidelis

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Gustavo Hernandez3 gün önce

@DanielleFong I hope this happen to us @Kavanahio

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why3 gün önce

That’s a wild gap between the check they asked for and the one he wrote. A very early bet on the team.

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Gary Drucker, CIC3 gün önce

Two Berkeley academics starting a company need a general liability insurance policy first. A 10 million dollar check without a certificate of insurance is a claim waiting to happen. I would have called them the same day.

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Rob Meder3 gün önce

that was smart. really smart.

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Ivan Damnjanovic3 gün önce

Databricks is pretty good, but I haven't seen their roadmap?

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Crio Songo3 gün önce

That's the top-tier investor's vision, this bet totally paid off for a16z.

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࣪˖ sophie m.3 gün önce

Totally agree with this

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