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Databricks corporate development & ventures

SF, CA
Joined January 2011
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Truth nuke in the FT comment section on Berlin rent control
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I give it a year until we see a new breed of AI native private equity firms that acquire companies just so they can move their workflows from Claude to open source Chinese models and flip them.
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Everyone’s body has a “code” hardwired into it which determines how your body changes with age. Chuck Norris called it your “Aging Type.” There’s a chance something in your body is throwing your longevity out of whack Take the quiz to discover your aging-type Try Morning Kick

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Probably the funniest graph ever published by the FT: our 3 possible futures are either 1) infinite wealth and abundance, 2) human extinction or 3) 0.2% faster GDP growth 🤣
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The only remaining stablecoin
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Yeah sex is good but have you ever got your boat stuck in the Suez Canal and blocked 10% of the world’s trade?
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A few short years ago, Capitol Police arrested Rev. Raphael Warnock for praying in the rotunda in protest of GOP efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act hankjohnson.house.gov/media-…
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#SanFrancisco now has over $800,000,000 (Eight Hundred Million) to spend on reducing homelessness and addressing the drug and mental health crisis in the city. No more excuses. We must see real, measurable results and soon. @LondonBreed @MattHaneySF @sfbos @SF_DPH
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If you're able to tuck in a healthy, peacefully sleeping child into a warm bed in a safe home, you've won the lottery of life.
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Imagine you’re the VP Eng at Tiktok who has to tell everyone you’re switching from AWS to Oracle Cloud
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We really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really need you to know we're not an R&B singer or a food distribution service.
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ONE LESS: Scott Pappalardo owned his AR-15 rifle for more than 30 years. He even has a Second Amendment tattoo on his arm. This weekend, he destroyed his gun “to make sure this weapon will be ever be able to take a life.” abcn.ws/2GtonzA
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Good-bye @ATT, hello @monkeybrainsnet ! Vote with your wallets folks. Switch to local ISPs if you're lucky enough to have one. #NetNeutrality #openinternet
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Everyone is overreacting to the Trump & Putin private meeting. Relax. It might have been Trump's performance review.
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John McCain is an American hero & one of the bravest fighters I've ever known. Cancer doesn't know what it's up against. Give it hell, John.
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.@Cisco and @AviNetworks Join Forces by Entering Into a Strategic Reseller Agreement j.mp/2tbRxzY
Keep those feelings contained… teapaw.org/mreferre/status/834054…
I keep bumping into people that used to work on OpenStack and now are working deep on Kubernetes… I have no data, just feelings.
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We are looking for folks to lead our investment and M&A activity in the Enterprise Networking, Cloud and Big Data do…lnkd.in/epeUJZa
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Philip Kirk retweeted
Sorry about the outage. I needed to temporarily borrow everyone's computing power to run some complex equations related to space stuff.
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