jerry chen, thank you for taking the time.g up, speaking of highflying cloud startups, databricks just raised new funds at a $38 billion valuation. we are going to ask about plans to go public and the data bric road ahead. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: databricks is a data analytics platform powered by artificial intelligence. it just announced it has raised $1.6 billion, valuing the company at $38 billion. joining us now, the databricks ceo. the numbers are huge. why are you still a private company. why not go public now? ali: we kind of see this is going public. we are allocating big blocks to the investors that are going to invest in us for many years to come. in january, we raised a billion dollars. that is reshaping our cap table. in this round, we are super excited to have the round be led by morgan stanley. kind of like a small ipo at the time. we will be public at some point. this is something that is really advantageous to us to do in this way. emily: you were last on the show to talk about that billion dollars you rais