Talk:Andy Konwinski

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Notability clarification for Andy Konwinski

Thanks for reviewing the draft. I’d like to clarify that Andy Konwinski meets Wikipedia’s notability standards, especially under the criteria for people in business and technology.

He is a co-founder of two decacorn companies: Databricks and Perplexity
He was part of the original team that created Apache Spark, a widely adopted open-source project that is cited across industry and academia
He gave the 2025 commencement speech at UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
He has been covered in independent, reliable sources including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and TechCrunch.
His name appears in many existing Wikipedia articles, including those for Databricks, Perplexity AI, Cloud Computing, and Dominant resource fairness.

This seems to meet notability requirements both in terms of significant coverage and impact in the field.

I have strengthened the formatting and sourcing of this article to help move this forward. Stan (talk) 23:47, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]