Andy
Konwinski

Andy Konwinski is a co-founder of Databricks, Perplexity, and Laude Ventures. His work spans research and real-world impact in AI, data, and software infrastructure. At Databricks he most recently ran AI Product and he continues to serve as President of Perplexity. He got his PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where he contributed to Apache Hadoop and co-created Apache Mesos and Apache Spark. He co-teaches a PhD seminar entitled “Research to Startups” at UC Berkeley.