What If Meta Acquired Databricks

In a moment of speculative musing, Anshu Sharma, Co-founder & CEO of Skyflow, took to LinkedIn to provoke a thought experiment—one that shook the data community and drew out some of the industry's sharpest minds. He asked, "What if Meta decides to get in the game by acquiring Databricks or Snowflake?" With just that one question, Sharma lit the spark for an interesting discussion: could Meta, a company primarily focused on social media, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence, ever enter the enterprise data space? This speculation is intriguing because of its scale—the ramifications of such a move would be huge, both for the companies involved and for the entire tech ecosystem. Let’s break down this scenario: what would happen if Meta really did acquire a major player lik