Interview, Explained
In-depth breakdowns of tech interviews — section-by-section analysis with diagrams, quotes, and insights.
~34 minArsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji on why the best tech doesn't win enterprises
Databricks co-founder Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji on why enterprise AI is years behind the valley, and why the winners will own the context, distribution, and domain expertise around the model, not the model itself.
~67 minAli Ghodsi on why the AI bottleneck is context, not intelligence
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi argues the existential-risk panic is overblown - near-term p(doom) is close to zero - while the real work is unglamorous engineering: securing systems against fast-moving cyber threats and giving already-capable models the organizational context they lack.
~75 minAli Ghodsi on running a company by its one giant bottleneck
A CEO playbook from Databricks' Ali Ghodsi: run the company by finding its one giant bottleneck and pouring everything into it, hire for the skills you lack, attack rivals only where they are weak, and treat conflict as a discipline you learn.
~70 minDatabricks' Zaharia and Xin on why data, not the model, is the moat
Databricks' co-founders on their one bet — that owning the data and the agent substrate, not the frontier model, is the durable moat in the AI era.