“The Tale of a Success” with Ali Ghodsi

CS Prof. Ali Ghodsi will be the inaugural speaker for “The Tale of a Success” entrepreneurship series, hosted by the Iranian Students of California (ISC) in collaboration with the Berkeley Iranian Students Association in America (ISAA).  Ghodsi is a co-founder and the CEO of enterprise software company Databricks, a start-up which grew out of the AMPLab project that is now valued at $38B. He was one of the original creators of the open source project Apache Spark, and “the ideas from his academic research in resource management and scheduling and data caching have been applied to Apache Mesos and Apache Hadoop.”  The lecture series features stories by successful Iranian-American entrepreneurs “who have all built category-defining tech companies.”  Ghodsi will give his presentation via Zooom webinar on October 14th.