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The Tech CEO Who Uses His Phone the Old-Fashioned Way

Databricks co-founder Ali Ghodsi relies heavily on his iPhone to run his 5,500-person company. But not all his favorite apps are cutting edge. Ali Ghodsi, the co-founder and CEO of Databricks, at their office in Berkeley, CA on Monday, July 10, 2023. By Corrie Driebusch | Photographs by Cayce Clifford for The Wall Street Journal July 28, 2023 11:00 pm ET The first installment of a new Wall Street Journal feature in which executives discuss the apps they depend on to stay ahead.  Ali Ghodsi is the co-founder and chief executive of Databricks, a San Francisco-based tech firm that rents analytics, artificial intelligence and other cloud-based software to companies. He also spends se

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The Tech CEO Who Uses His Phone the Old-Fashioned Way
Databricks co-founder Ali Ghodsi relies heavily on his iPhone to run his 5,500-person company. But not all his favorite apps are cutting edge.
Ali Ghodsi, the co-founder and CEO of Databricks, at their office in Berkeley, CA on Monday, July 10, 2023.
Ali Ghodsi, the co-founder and CEO of Databricks, at their office in Berkeley, CA on Monday, July 10, 2023.

The first installment of a new Wall Street Journal feature in which executives discuss the apps they depend on to stay ahead. 

Ali Ghodsi is the co-founder and chief executive of Databricks, a San Francisco-based tech firm that rents analytics, artificial intelligence and other cloud-based software to companies. He also spends several hours a day on average on his phone. Ghodsi recently shared his own analytics with The Wall Street Journal to give some insight into how he operates on any given day. Here were his top apps:

Write to Corrie Driebusch at [email protected]

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