Jamin Ball

Partner, Altimeter

Jamin Ball is an Investment Partner at Altimeter. Some of his investments include Tabular, Clickhouse, LiveKit, dbt Labs, Inngest, Elorian, among others. He also authors the Clouded Judgement blog. Prior to joining Altimeter in 2021, Mr. Ball was a vice president at Redpoint Ventures (2016-2020) on their growth fund, focused on Series B and later stage investments. Prior to Redpoint, he was an analyst at Morgan Stanley on their investment banking technology team covering software (2014 - 2016). Mr. Ball received a B.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University (2014). He played on the varsity men’s tennis team all four years, serving as captain in his senior season

Jamin Ball

Sessions / 2026 / 1 talk

  • The lakehouse architecture solved a real problem — but AI has rewritten the requirements. Latency, compute separation, vector workloads, real-time inference pipelines: the demands look nothing like they did five years ago. Three engineers who helped build the modern data stack join us to debate what's actually changing under the hood, what's being thrown out, and what the next five years look like for the teams who have to ship on top of it.

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