Ali Ghodsi
$2.71B
as of 04/01/25
About Ali Ghodsi
Ali Ghodsi is cofounder and CEO of software startup Databricks, which private investors valued at $62 billion in January 2025.
After a career in academia, Ghodsi cofounded Databricks with six UC Berkeley academics who built the popular analytics engine Apache Spark.
Databricks is built on top of Spark and uses AI to power, in Ghodsi's words, a "data lakehouse" that helps companies store and utilize their data.
Ghodsi was tapped to lead Databricks in 2016 amid company struggles to generate revenue; initially, he had joined in 2013 as a part-time engineer.
The first-time CEO orchestrated a turnaround after revamping Databricks' leadership and product offerings.
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SwedenSource of wealth
Data analyticsResidence
San Francisco, CaliforniaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
12/08/78 (age 46)Education
Ph.D, KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Master of Business Administration, Mid Sweden University; Master of Science in Engineering, Mid Sweden UniversitySelf-made
self-madeAli Ghodsi’s fortune is worth
45K
troy ounces of gold
42K
median U.S. household
27K
median U.S. income
0.054%
U.S. credit card volume
0.011%
GDP of the United States
0.008%
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Ghodsi is a Swedish citizen, who arrived in the country as a child after his family was forced to flee Iran during the 1979 Revolution.
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