India is about tech talent availability, not low-cost options: Databricks cofounder Patrick Wendell

AI firm Databricks, which saw its valuation cross $100 billion recently, will invest “way more” than the initially planned $250 million in India, its cofounder Patrick Wendell told ET’s Surabhi Agarwal in an exclusive conversation at the company’s San Francisco headquarters.

The company is betting on India as both a key development hub along with a key business market. The data company which counts a16z, Thrive Capital, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and CapitalG as its key investors said that it is a “cash generating” healthy firm, which…