Rank #845
Ion Stoica
Net worth $5.0B
Data analytics · Romania
- Born
- Feb 12, 1965
- Age
- 61
- Source
- Data analytics
- Residence
- Berkeley, California
- Citizenship
- Romania
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Ph.D, Carnegie Mellon University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Ion Stoica is cofounder and executive chairman of software startup Databricks, which private investors valued at $134 billion in February.
- He served as the original CEO from its inception in 2013 until early 2016, when he ceded the position to cofounder Ali Ghodsi.
- Prior to Databricks, Stoica cofounded video streaming startup Conviva. He is also a UC Berkeley computer science professor.
- Stoica cofounded Databricks alongside six UC Berkeley academics who had built the popular data analytics engine Apache Spark.
- Databricks is built on top of the Apache Spark framework and uses AI to help companies store and utilize their data.