In an excerpt from his interview with Brian Halligan, Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi pushes back on the contrast between a sales-driven Snowflake and a product-driven Databricks, praising his own team. He says Databricks had half its rival’s revenue and was growing more slowly. The listener sharing the excerpt summarizes the lesson as studying competitors and targeting their weaknesses—and argues Shopify has a similar opportunity to challenge Amazon in shopping powered by AI agents.