Ali Ghodsi

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The a16z Show · Databricks CEO on AI Pacing, Cyber Risk, and the Enterprise · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

So you know, database comes up in far less than a second.

You can clone gigantic database.

So you can't have a petabyte database, you can clone it in less than a second.

You know?

So it's like highly elastic, highly responsive.

And then they built this killer feature called branching.

Uh so branching just lets you branch the database.

You can have many, many branches over the same database.

Um and uh they just made this very, very lightweight.

We saw this with other things with agents, right?

Like UV, you know, rip grep, like basically re-implementation of a lot of the tools on Unix, making them really, really blazing fast and lightweight, and also sort of uh fail-safe for agents.

Just did this to a harder problem, which is database.

So like now you have a Postgres database.

And the Postgres database has all these advantages that it's really fast, it's nimble, it's fail-safe.

You can go back to snapshots, it you can do those things.

So I think that's why it's it's just easier for the agents to use this.

Um they also made sure that it had a pricing model that was like you don't want just because the agents are building some software and experiments, you don't want the costs to run up.

You're okay paying for your database if it's like production used and lots of people are using it.

But just to experiment.

Uh so I think they were just obsessed.

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