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Sridhar Ramaswamy

20 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 8 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 10, 2025 by Sridhar Ramaswamy · said 13 times in 6 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Feb 10, 2025
Insight
Ramaswamy: Postponing difficult workplace conflicts only makes them worse
“Conflicts typically do not resolve themselves. And so, you kind of have to internalize that postponing things is going to make them worse. The more you postpone, the worse it gets.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 13:25 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025 negative
Opinion
Ramaswamy: Building Startups on Top of OpenAI Is Terrifying
“I think it is terrifying to be a startup building on top of OpenAI.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 24:38 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025
Insight
Ramaswamy: Executive Strengths Become Inhibitors When Team Size Doubles
“Every time your team doubles in size all of the things that used to make you wonderful for your previous team Are typically massive inhibitors for you to succeed in your new job.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 11:47 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025 negative
Opinion
Ramaswamy: OpenAI Strategically Misdirects Competitors on Hard Technical Problems
“It's also now becoming clear that they are good at misdirection in terms of where, you know, where they tell people hard problems are and it is good that people like DeepSeek, you know, went and busted some of those some of those myths.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 23:53 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025 negative
Opinion
Ramaswamy: CEOs Claiming No Value From AI Lack Understanding
“And if some CEO is telling you that they're seeing no value from AI, I'd be like, I'm not sure you know a whole lot.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 34:14 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025
Insight
Ramaswamy: Aging Limits the Ability to Master Brand-New Fields
“Another thing that we have to be realistic about as you grow older is your ability to just sink a huge amount of time into a brand new area is kind of limited. And you have to have the humility about stuff like that.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 7:39 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ramaswamy: Snowflake Will Rely on Product Innovation Over Major M&A
“An inorganic kind of unrelated acquisition strategy is not something that I'm excited about. I think it'll be a disruption. Snowflake is a Product-led innovation company. We are not a PE shop. Not that there's anything wrong with being a PE shop. It's just a d…”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 42:37 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025 bullish
Prediction Held up
Ramaswamy: ChatGPT Will Remain the Primary Consumer AI Entry Point
“On the consumer side, I know you disagree, I think ChatGPT is getting to be that entry point, and so if I were a betting person on the consumer side, To the extent that there are variations in models and specializations I think that'll include to the incumbent…”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 46:57 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ramaswamy: OpenAI Reached 500M Users Without Paying for Advertising
“Which was the last company that you heard about that got to five hundred million you know, users without really, like, paying for advertising in recent years? Like, That's not a social network. Like none.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 23:28 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025 negative
Opinion
Ramaswamy: Society Pretends to Value Teaching But Actually Does Not
“I was like, yeah, don't pick these noble professions that we all pretend we value, but in fact, we don't. I was like, being a teacher is really hard.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 2:55 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025 negative
Opinion
Ramaswamy: 'Founder Mode' Is Just a Shortcut Term for Effective Leadership
“I think it's just a shortcut for describing effective people. I think anyone can be that.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 50:45 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ramaswamy: Enterprise AI Adoption Growth Will Be Gentle, Not Exponential
“I think it is going to be gentler. In terms of just growth. On the other hand I can very confidently tell you that AI is creating value today, and it'll continue to create enduring value.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 33:45 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ramaswamy: OpenAI will succeed through product experience, not model superiority
“OpenAI, I think, will be successful, not because they are always going to be the best and cheapest at creating foundation models, because they have a product experience that by some accounts has half a billion loyal users.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 21:35 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025
Insight
Ramaswamy: Leadership Is Selling Employees on Unwanted Role Changes
“Again, that is real leadership. Going and selling something that people don't want, and painting a vision for the future and getting them to stay, that's hard.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 16:49 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Ramaswamy: Anthropic Lags OpenAI Due to Model-Only Focus
“There's a reason why Anthropic hasn't done as well because it operates sort of at The model level. It's all of the additional things that go into ChatGPD that I think has staying power.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 0:23 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025
Disclosure
Ramaswamy: I Have Demoted Executives by Halving Their Responsibilities
“I have demoted people, given them half their job and said, this is better for you.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 12:52 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ramaswamy: ChatGPT Users Will Not Switch to DeepSeek
“You're not going to switch from ChatGPT to DeepSeq. It's a product. It's not a model.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 0:17 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Ramaswamy: Snowflake Prioritizes Drive and Malleability in Senior Hires
“I think that core formula of drive and malleability is the advice that I give to a twenty-one-year-old. Honestly, it's the thing that I look for when I am trying to hire you know, take your pick, a senior exec into Snowflake.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 3:50 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 10, 2025 negative
Opinion
Ramaswamy: Too Many Customers View Snowflake Strictly as a Data Warehouse
“Too many of our own customers who love Snowflake think of us as like, ah, very good warehouse.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 10, 2025 ▶ 53:14 Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 9, 2026
Disclosure
Chad Peet was brought into Snowflake to fix go-to-market inefficiencies
“He and Sridhar Ramaswamy, the CEO of Soflake, asked me to come in, in, 18 months ago to help find inefficiencies within the go-to-market function and maybe to drive a higher level of performance than we were getting.”
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