Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI · 2026-03-31 · 44 min
"Companies designing for agents, not humans, are going to get a lot of lift." ClickHouse started as an internal tool at Yandex. Today it's the database Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Tesla all run on. In this episode, CEO Aaron Katz joins Lukas Biewald to talk about how he turned an open source project into a $15B company, why he acquired LangFuse knowing it could cost him customers, and what he's actually building for the agent era. Snowflake, Datadog and Databricks all come up. He doesn't shy away.
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