Aaron Katz

Co-Founder & CEO, Clickhouse

Search every verified Aaron Katz interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Aaron Katz, co-founder and CEO of ClickHouse, appeared on the January 20, 2026 episode of TBPN, where he discussed the company's role in the AI ecosystem. He stated that ClickHouse has served as a back-end database for agentic workflows for several years, including for companies such as Lovable, Cursor, Anthropic, and OpenAI, as well as for non-AI firms like Ramp. Katz noted that Anthropic and OpenAI spoke at ClickHouse's event in San Francisco the previous year, and he recounted that Anthropic discovered ClickHouse after asking its AI model, Claude, for observability tool recommendations. Katz also mentioned a call with the CEO of a large European fintech company, who said that every large language model the firm consulted recommended ClickHouse for a new real-time analytics product. He attributed some of this adoption to AI models themselves suggesting ClickHouse, citing examples where LLMs recommended the database. The appearance also covered broader topics such as Davos reactions, Waymo safety, and a tour of the Czinger 21C hypercar, though Katz's comments focused primarily on ClickHouse's integration with AI-driven workflows.