Degnan: Sutter Hill's Mike Speiser is the best board member ever seen
Chris Degnan · Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · May 23, 2026 · at 43:27
Chris Degnan discusses working with Sutter Hill Ventures partner Mike Speiser during Snowflake's growth from inception to scaling past $4B ARR.
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“I think that, I think the best board member that I've ever seen is, is Mike Speiser. I went and in building Snowflake, that guy was so, he was a founder of the company and then he was so involved in the product and he did any, when he didn't know about sales, that's why he brought in John McMahon to be on the board of Snowflake. Like there's like, he knows where he's good at and he knows where he's not, and he's super valuable. So he literally probably the best board member I've seen.”
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