5 Lessons Learned as VP Product at Databricks $400M to $1.5B+ | LinkedIn

Some personal news: after an awesome three year ride at Databricks, the time has come to mark my farewell. Before looking forward, I wanted to look back and share a few personal lessons learned from the company’s journey from 1,600 to 6,500+ employees. I’m grateful to have played a small part in the company’s breakout growth from ~$400M to $1.5B+ ARR, and it’s been a career highlight to build up several product teams — including serverless, security, growth, identity, admin, observability, money and data serving — from zero to one. It has been – and continues to be — a special time in a generational company’s growth. I’m looking forward to reading your comments and questions. And if you’re a founder that is on this side of $1B in revenues – I’d love to hear from you (I’ll be selectively investing in or advising a handful of awesome founders). In January 2021, Databricks was essentially still a single product company, serving data engineering and data science teams. In the past three ye

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