The Ledger
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Mike Speiser barred Snowflake's first sales hire from selling for two years
“Mike Speiser was like, for two years, you're not selling a thing. Like, I don't want you to sell anything. I just want you to get customer feedback.”
Snowflake paused sales hiring for six months to replace MySQL with FoundationDB
“And we had MySQL as the metadata store, and it was just puking on itself. And so they had to take that and bring in a new thing called FoundationDB to do that. And doing that was a six-month project.”
Snowflake achieved a 177% net revenue retention rate at IPO
“Snowflake had this ridiculous net retention rate of 177% when we were going public. Yeah, that was our net retention rate.”
Degnan: Snowflake initially sold exclusively to ad tech and gaming companies
“And that's what we did is we were only selling to ad tech companies and online gaming companies in the beginning. And that's where we failed and broke the product and learned a lot. And then we were ready for prime time.”