DATABRICKS CEO FINDS RIGHT BLEND.

ARTIFICIAL intelligence; DATA warehousing; MUSTARD gas; CHIEF executive officers; IRAN-Iraq War, 1980-1988; COMPUTER vision; IRANIAN Revolution, 1979; CLOUD storage

The article focuses on Ali Ghodsi, co-founder of Databricks, remembers as a child seeing Tehran turning dark as the lights went out and Iraqi aircraft bombed the city during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988. Topics include Ghodsi moved to Sweden with his family and was educated there, from kindergarten to postdoc, the famously social-democratic culture of Sweden has left an imprint on his thinking, and the not so much for the little guy wanting to launch his own company.