Snowflake, every mention
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every year 2024 anyone Harry Stebbings 132Chris Degnan 76Chad Peets 33Jason Lemkin 22Sridhar Ramaswamy 12Brad Gerstner 7Aaron Katz 7Christian Kleinerman 6Lucas Swisher 5Peter Wagner 4
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Snowflake comes up
Matt Plank, Rippling's CRO: How to Build an Enterprise Sales Machine | E1241 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:17 Harry Stebbings It was Chris Dagnon at Snowflake, and he was like, CS is bullshit.
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:01 Dan Fougere Data Dog and Snowflake and companies like that.
- ▶ 21:31 Dan Fougere And so, which is kind of like, to me, what I saw with Snowflake, and you know, but this is, this is real time, so we didn't see this yet.
- ▶ 38:12 Dan Fougere You could even say Snowflake was an example because Chris Degnan now is not Chris Degnan nine years ago, right?
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:59 unnamed speaker So, you know, snowflake,
David Schneider: Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs" & VC Value Add - Is it Real? | E1200 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:03 Harry Stebbings We had Chris Degnan on from Snowflake, and he's like, just completely denigrated CS and said, that's why we don't have it, and it's bullshit, basically.
Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:46 Chad Peets It's snowflake. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:15 Harry Stebbings My first question to you, I want to unpack the Chris and the snowflake skating, but you mentioned like the focus and knowing the customer so intimately well.
- ▶ 28:25 Chad Peets They don't have a customer success organization at Snowflake, or at least they didn't. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:33 Harry Stebbings We mentioned there about kind of Chris, Snowflake, they're not agreeing with CS. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:00 Chad Peets Now take that versus you're going to go work for Snowflake, a ten million, that's a ten million dollar ACV company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:12 Harry Stebbings Are there any other core elements that you absolutely nailed with Snowflake that enabled the velocity 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:32 Harry Stebbings Snowflake's a sexy company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:49 Harry Stebbings So I think content is the most important thing in the world today when it comes to the sales process, because I think if you call me and say, hey, I'm, I'm here from Snowflake, and I go, oh, I actually loved your guide that you released… 2 times in the scene
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:21 Harry Stebbings Bluntly, you and the venture career that you've had so far, and he mentioned you're being 27 and being the co-head of, you know, the venture division at Co-Two, and you worked with Databricks, UiPath, Snowflake, some of the best businesses… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:00 David Cahn Zoom, Snowflake, right?
- ▶ 1:08:38 David Cahn He was basically the smartest person that I'd talked to in all my diligence on Snowbug and Databricks.
Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:37 Jason Lemkin I mean, I don't want to pick on anybody, but I think the one we're trying to understand is, um, how was Snowflake vulnerable when it appeared invulnerable? 8 times in the scene
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:45 Aravind Srinivas Like, it's not, I'm not even talking about things like, why is it hard to migrate from Snowflake to Databricks?
Larry Shurtz: How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Vertical Teams | E1151 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:23 Harry Stebbings So I had Chris Dagnon on the show, the CRS snowflake. 5 times in the scene
Peter Wagner: 27 Years of Investing Lessons of Picking Founders, Price Discipline & Reserve | E1123 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:01 Peter Wagner Like, if I think of the Snowflake guys, you know, uh, you know, Benoit and Terry, the two principal founders, they had worked in the belly of the beast for, like, decades, uh, over at Oracle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:11 Peter Wagner Um, again, maybe Snowflake's an example of that, right? 2 times in the scene
Ed Sim & Jamin Ball: Did Figma Kill M&A Markets & 3 Requirements to IPO in 2024 | E1101 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:50 Jamin Ball Look, Snowflake was trading at 400 dollars a share, now it's trading at 200 dollars a share, right? 3 times in the scene