What was your early philosophy for tackling the company's problems?
Co-Founder & CEO at Databricks
Find the one major bottleneck and put an orders-of-magnitude disproportionate amount of attention on it. Not just a little more attention. A lot more. Almost to the point of going overboard. Because even with that level of focus, you probably will not fully unclog it. There is so much other stuff landing in your lap every day that you will be pulled in every direction. If you do not deliberately overallocate attention to that one thing, you will make no real progress on it. For me in 2015 and 2016, the bottleneck was simple. Open source success, check. Commercial success, zero. So everything went toward building the commercial engine.
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