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Taylor Kain shared this80% revenue growth is insane at $7B run rate. The 🚀 continues…Taylor Kain shared thisToday, we announced that we crossed $7B in revenue run-rate, growing over 80% year over year. We also shared: 📊 $100M+ revenue run-rate for Lakebase 📈 $1.5B+ revenue run-rate for Lakehouse, growing over 100% YoY 💰 Continued positive adjusted free cash flow And we raised $5B in our latest fundraise. Thank you to Coatue, Blackstone, MGX, T. Rowe Price, and Sixth Street Growth for leading this round. We’ll use this capital to invest in: • Lakebase, our serverless Postgres database built for AI agents • Genie, our AI coworkers that actually understand your business data • Unity AI Gateway, our multi-AI governance solution that helps control costs Victor Dey shares more in Forbes: https://lnkd.in/gcdhCYvWDatabricks Hits $190 Billion Valuation As CEO Ali Ghodsi Claims AGI Has Already ArrivedDatabricks Hits $190 Billion Valuation As CEO Ali Ghodsi Claims AGI Has Already Arrived
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Taylor Kain shared this🚀 We’re hiring! Michael Trapani and I are looking for a Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Lakewatch & Agentic Apps to help us build and scale the next generation of AI-powered security apps at Databricks. If you have deep enterprise security marketing experience, thrive in fast-paced GTM environments, and want to shape the future of the Security Lakehouse...we’d love to work with you! 👉 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/efCeBpHZSr. Product Marketing Manager, Lakewatch & Agentic Apps - DatabricksSr. Product Marketing Manager, Lakewatch & Agentic Apps - Databricks
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Taylor Kain shared thisIf you are at Black Hat today, make sure you come by the Databricks booth #5106 in the AI Zone to hear Allie Mellen speak on her thoughts on the current cyber landscape and get a signed copy of her latest book Code War.Taylor Kain shared thisMissed the book signings yesterday? I have TWO LAST ONES today!! Come get a book: 9:45 - 10:45 at the Databricks booth #5106 11 - 12 at the Zscaler booth #2557 Can’t wait to see you there!!
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Taylor Kain shared thisSuper excited to announce Databricks has joined the NVIDIA Open Security Alliance.Taylor Kain shared thisDatabricks joins the Open Secure AI Alliance to advance AI safety and security, alongside NVIDIA and other industry leaders. The alliance is built on a simple but powerful premise: AI safety and security research should be shared openly, and the tools it produces should be built on open systems. Databricks brings governed data, model and agent capabilities, and open tools and frameworks for security, governance, red teaming, and cyber defense. Read more about what Databricks is bringing to the alliance and how we're securing the agentic era together https://lnkd.in/gci_34bf
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Taylor Kain shared this🚀 Databricks + Panther is officially closed! Cybersecurity is now a data + AI challenge. By pairing Panther’s SOC workflows and detections-as-code with Lakewatch, we're giving security teams petabyte-scale data retention, automated AI triage, and real-time threat hunting on an open security lakehouse. Heading to Black Hat this week? Visit our booth at #5106 and #2167 to see live demos and meet the team! 👉 Check out the blog post for all the details: https://lnkd.in/e_WuufPk Andrew K. Jack Naglieri Dave HerraldDatabricks Completes Acquisition of Panther: Accelerating the Security Lakehouse EraDatabricks Completes Acquisition of Panther: Accelerating the Security Lakehouse Era
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Taylor Kain shared thisCheckout the latest ebook from Dave Herrald and I on how to outpace AI-Zero Days. This will also be the featured topic of our CISO roundtable at Black Hat next week. This has been the #1 topic customers and prospects bring up recently…Taylor Kain shared thisAI can discover and weaponize vulnerabilities in hours, while many security teams still operate on patch cycles measured in days or weeks. This eBook shows how a security lakehouse approach can help teams: • Consolidate vulnerability data, SBOMs, asset inventories, and multicloud telemetry on an open, OCSF-native foundation • Use defensive AI agents for triage, exposure assessment, telemetry hunting, and an initial pass at detection rules • Compress the exploit window with real-time analytics and multiyear searchable retention at up to 60% lower TCO Download the eBook: https://lnkd.in/g8wbPHJv
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Taylor Kain shared thisSuper excited to have Allie Mellen join us at the Databricks Booth #5106 next Thursday August 6th from 9:45 - 10:45am at Black Hat. She is one of the brightest minds in the security space and will be discussing the latest trends in AI and how threat actors are using agents to launch machine scale attacks. She will also be doing a signing for her new book Code War. You won't want to miss this!Taylor Kain shared thisCatch me at Black Hat next week! I'll be speaking at the Databricks booth on what's changing in AI and how nation states are leveraging it, then signing copies of my book Code War! Come join us on August 6 from 9:45 - 10:45 AM, booth 5106!! https://bit.ly/m/codewar
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Taylor Kain shared thisI’ll be out in Las Vegas next week for Black Hat USA leading the Databricks and Panther presence. If you’re going to be at #BHUSA, I’d love to connect and catch up. Let me know if you’ll be in town or drop me a dm.Taylor Kain shared thisWe’re heading to Black Hat USA 2026 for a week of conversations on the security challenges shaping today’s SOC. Join us for: - Demos and conversations with the Databricks team at booth #5106 - A guest session and book signing with cyber expert Allie Mellen at our booth on August 6, 9:45–10:45 a.m. - A CISO Executive Roundtable on shrinking exploit windows, unifying fragmented security data and deploying AI in the SOC with the right governance and controls on August 5, 2:00–3:00 p.m. You’ll also find Panther, now part of Databricks, on the expo floor. See you in Las Vegas! #BHUSA
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Taylor Kain shared thisWith open-source exploit tooling and autonomous AI models collapsing disclosure-to-exploit windows from weeks to hours, traditional patching SLAs just can't keep up. If your team is rethinking how to manage vulnerability operations in the AI era, check out this on-demand session from Databricks: Beyond the Patch: Surviving the Mythos AI Crisis: https://lnkd.in/evq5nY9R Key takeaways: ⚡ Moving from legacy SIEM & patch SLAs to real-time exploit window management 🤖 Safely deploying AI defense agents without introducing blind spots 📊 Board-ready metrics to communicate AI-driven vulnerability risk Featuring insights from Dave Herrald and Omar Khawaja. 🔗 Watch the full session on-demand here: https://lnkd.in/evq5nY9R Jack Naglieri Andrew K. Kristin Dahl
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Thanks Allie Mellen! We so enjoyed your session and book signing at the Databricks booth.
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Congrats Alex Ott. Enjoy working with you! You have been such a great asset in helping us build and grow cybersecurity at Databricks.
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Taylor Kain liked thisEnjoyed watching the US Open with SecurityScorecard and the talented team at Anthropic, which hosted fellow security leaders. A couple of quick thoughts from the stands. There are an increasing number of parallels between tennis and cyber today. Like any good tennis pro, we threat model and study our advesary tactics and techniques. But even with that knowledge, no player knows where the next attack (serve) is going land or how defenses will hold (the return). Even when we are proactive and prepare it is impossible to predict your opponents next shot. That is why pros don’t only practice with a ball machine and why we security leaders have moved alway from static and reactive solutions. To win, using the right AI model/tool for the job matters, but only if you have the right strategy. In the same way, it wasn’t Navone’s racket or shoes that beat Djokovic. And as much as we want to bake in deterministic defenses to improve control, AI cyber is probabilistic by nature, and so are today's AI driven threats. We will win more cyber battles by being proactive and adaptive in our defenses, not with perfect prediction.
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Taylor Kain liked thisTaylor Kain liked thisI am thrilled to share that I have joined Arctic Wolf as a Corporate Communications Manager!! 🐺 The #cybersecurity industry just can't keep me away! I am so honored to join a company like Arctic Wolf with the team we have to effectively tell the story around how we can end cyber risk. A special thank you to Caren Auchman and Ilina Cashiola for all of the support as I dive into this exciting next phase of my personal journey. I can't wait to see all the great work we will do together! P.S. I am still actively HOWWLLLLLIIIINNGG at my computer!
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Taylor Kain liked thisTaylor Kain liked thisAfter an awesome chapter at AWS, I'm excited to share that I've joined Databricks 🚀 To my former AWS team — thank you 🧡. You showed me what true customer obsession looks like, held an incredibly high bar, and made even the toughest days fun. Big, big hugs to every one of you. And to the wonderful customers I had the privilege of working with 💛💙 — thank you for your trust, your candor, and for making the work meaningful. I'm genuinely excited about what's ahead — and looking forward to learning a lot. ☀️
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Taylor Kain liked thisThis is awesome! I do use Genie many times in every meeting I'm in now. Most of the time from my mobile phone. I always have follow up questions (numerical, business, etc). I used to ask them in the meeting and it'd slow down the meeting, now I just submit these in the background and get my answers.Taylor Kain liked thisAs SVP of Finance at one of the fastest growing companies in the world, I use Genie every day to run our financial operations. I just had an issue resolved 98% faster compared to pre-Genie workflows. 3 hours ago, I noticed two of my go-to dashboards were out of sync - a common single source of truth issue for any finance team. Given I'm in Asia, this problem would have taken 2 days to resolve: requiring me to send an email to the US-based data engineering team overnight, have numerous individuals diagnose it and 1 or 2 days later the fix would appear in the dashboard, a frustrating delay and expensive resolution. Instead in Genie, I did a pretty simple query: "I'm trying to reconcile the total $DBU from the $DBU Finance dashboard and the Record Book. They are usually the same but in the last few weeks a small delta has emerged." (note $DBU is our internal measure of consumption). Within 60 seconds, Genie gave me the answer (and a quite ironic one as you can see below 🚀 ) - it was able to create a complete replica of the old dashboard with this fixed. Additionally, it went ahead and proceeded with my approval to submit a ticket to have the original table updated. My team is ready to talk to any other finance execs who would like to have the same power at their fingertips! 2 days to 60 seconds! It is truly game changing.
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Taylor Kain liked thisTaylor Kain liked thisToday is my last day with Google. After 7+ amazing years (2,629 days … anybody cares?), my Google journey is officially coming to a close! From Chronicle Security (circa 2019) to Cloud Security Podcast by Google to Autonomic Security Operations (ASO) to SAIF to AI governance, and way too many CISO meetings to count, it’s been an incredible ride. I was happy to share parts of it with incredible people. May your logs always be centralized (or: federated, when necessary) and your detections autonomic! The new journey begins ... soon!
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Taylor Kain liked thisTaylor Kain liked thisA couple weeks ago, our team got together to plan what’s next for CustomerLake. One thing I keep noticing at Databricks is that there’s a relentless culture of self disruption. It’s not “we built something great, let’s protect it.” It’s “we built something great, now how do we beat it?” It’s rare. And honestly, very fun to be a part of. Couldn’t be more excited about where this is going, and grateful to be building with a team this sharp.
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Taylor Kain liked thisTaylor Kain liked thisI am very proud to have graduated from Boston University College of Engineering with a degree in computer engineering in 2015. As a student, I often read Bostonia, the Boston University alumni magazine, which makes it especially meaningful to now be featured in that very magazine for my book, Code War: How Nations Hack, Spy, and Shape the Digital Battlefield. Read the article about my book and many other alumni books released this year: https://lnkd.in/gTUDWnxVReading List: New Books by Alums Christopher Castellani, Jasper Craven, and Jessica Keener | Bostonia | Boston UniversityReading List: New Books by Alums Christopher Castellani, Jasper Craven, and Jessica Keener | Bostonia | Boston University
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Taylor Kain liked thisTaylor Kain liked thisI’ve been lucky to work with some incredible founders throughout my career. But Ali Ghodsi’s ability to see around corners is unmatched. He has a rare gift for identifying new markets early, redefining what’s possible, and executing with relentless drive. I get to learn from him every day, but his influence extends far beyond Databricks. So I’m proud to share that TIME just named Ali to the 2026 #Time100AI list. This is the group reshaping the world with AI, and we’re just starting to see the impact. Congratulations, Ali! https://lnkd.in/gxA_NtuW
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