Sridhar Ramaswamy
CEO, Snowflake. On 6 shows, 9 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Sridhar Ramaswamy serves as the CEO of Snowflake, steering its cloud data platform and enterprise AI strategy after succeeding Frank Slootman in February 2024. Prior to Snowflake, he co-founded the private search engine Neeva and spent 15 years at Google, eventually leading its advertising and commerce business as Senior Vice President.
6shows
9appearances
205statements
27resolved
18supported
4contradicted
67%fully supported
35said about them ↓ Everything Sridhar Ramaswamy said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Ramaswamy: Snowflake monetizing storage was a long-term strategic mistake
“My take is that us deciding to monetize storage was a long-term strategic mistake. I think we simply should have said, we will pass through storage costs.”
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.”
Ramaswamy: Closed US labs force American academics to use Chinese AI research
“What is happening right now is that it's the Chinese companies that are publishing their work. And what then happens is all the universities, all the students and professors in our country are looking at their work and figuring out how to build on top of it. A…”
Ramaswamy: Chinese open-source AI parity is a net positive for Western innovation
“So from a macro perspective, I would say that that is actually a positive because Mistral is going to figure out how to reverse engineer all of this stuff, stuff, and go one step forward, which will be good for Europe. And Reflection will figure out how to do …”
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.”
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.”
Ramaswamy: Databricks Buys Revenue and Has Double Snowflake's Sales Headcount
“It's very clear that they're buying a bunch of business. That they don't have to worry about things like you know free cash flow. They have doubled the number of sales people that we have.”
Ramaswamy: Databricks Shifts Narratives Between AI and SQL to Mislead
“Even if you look at, you know the competitor that we talked about for a few months, it was all about like amazing. AI is going through the roof. I haven't heard much from them about AI recently. All of a sudden, amazing. It's equal going through the roof. It f…”
Ramaswamy: Amazon Search Is a Joke Polluted by Misleading Ads
“I find Amazon search experience a joke because it is so full of ads and it's actually misleading ads where it's really hard to find what is going on.”
Ramaswamy: Big Tech Claims That Ads Democratize Access Are Entirely Self-Serving
“I find this whole thing of ads enable Google to make free products or ads enable Facebook to be available for Ecuadorian people made by billionaires sitting in Palo Alto to be entirely self-serving.”
Ramaswamy: A $2T monopoly claiming 'Day Zero' status is dishonest and stupid
“When you're a monopoly with a two trillion dollar market cap for you to pretend that it is day zero is A, not the truth, B, positively stupid.”
Ramaswamy: Any AI model lead OpenAI or Anthropic gain will vanish quickly
“This just means that OpenAI and Anthropic need to understand that any kind of lead that they get is not going to be a long-lived one, and they really have to work hard and compete.”
Ramaswamy: Niche SaaS companies risk becoming dumb backends to major AI models
“What this current moment is pointing out is that that's a very dangerous place to be, and a lot of these players risk becoming dumb backends to the models, which is why Snowflake is so leaning forward on agentic AI and living by what we speak, because that's t…”
Ramaswamy: Bolting AI features onto existing SaaS is not a winning strategy
“AI as a bolt-on to SaaS software does not feel like a winning strategy.”
Ramaswamy: Frontier AI labs want to reduce enterprise software to data pipes
“The big model makers want to create a world in which all of the data for all of the enterprises is easily available to them. I, and you know, everything else, the world is just a dumb data pipe that feeds into that big brain.”
Ramaswamy: Alibaba's new Qwen model is shockingly close to Anthropic's Claude Sonnet
“A new Quen model came out yesterday that is shockingly close to the best Sonnet model that there is from Anthropic.”
Ramaswamy: Snowflake tests and learns from Chinese open-source AI models
“So we test them. We use them. We try to we try to learn from them. We also partner with US companies that are trying to create open source models. There's actually a company that's based in in, in Brooklyn and San Francisco that is that, that, that we work wit…”
Ramaswamy: Tech companies in the AI era face binary trillion-dollar-or-bust outcomes
“This is a moment where It feels very much like a company has only two outcomes. It's either is going to become a trillion dollar behemoth or disappear without a trace.”
Ramaswamy: No Company Has Any Business Feeling Confident Navigating AI Era
“I will never say that we are like, you know, confident about getting through the AI era because no company has any business being confident about getting through the AI era.”
Ramaswamy: Seat-based SaaS models will struggle against cheaper AI competitors
“I think it's more of, if somebody is very heavy in a seat-based licensing model, And someone else shows up that, you know, has a better product and is also cheaper. That's a very dangerous combination. I think those are the companies that are going to struggle…”
Ramaswamy: Slootman Stepped Down Because Snowflake Was Slow on AI
“I think what happened was the company was a little slow to reacting to changes from things like machine learning and AI. And that was a little bit of, honestly, the reason why Frank voluntarily pushed for the change, because he felt presently that we are heade…”
Ramaswamy: Line Between Agentic Systems and Pure Software Will Be Bloody
“But on the other hand, I think the line between what an agentic system like this is going to be and what like pure software is going to be will be absolutely is going to be bloody.”
Ramaswamy: Why Google Failed in Shopping and Travel
“Google, for example, stopped that information. God knows I spent enough time trying to get into physical things like shopping or airline purchases or hotels. We didn't really succeed because we didn't have core competence really in some fundamental way beyond …”
The other half of the tape: Sridhar Ramaswamy's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 34 times in 14 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Chris Degnan 13Alex Kantrowitz 6Chad Peets 4Jason Lemkin 3Harry Stebbings 2Tomasz Tunguz 1Reid Hoffman 1Molly O'Shea 1
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20VC 13
the Official SaaStr Podcast 11
Big Technology 7
the MAD Podcast 2
Sourcery 1
2026 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles
- 20Sales: Why the Best Sales People are F**** in the Head | Why Remote Work is BS | Why Europe is a Nightmare for Recruiting Sales Teams | How to Build a Sales Machine | What Everyone Gets Wrong Today in Sales with Chad Peets
- The Dashboard Is Dead: What Snowflake's CMO Does Instead
- Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie
- Elon Musk & The SpaceX IPO: Largest Wealth Event in History? | Shaun Maguire, Sequoia · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 17 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
- Snowflake's AI Revolution in Sales, Marketing and GTM with Snowflake‘s CMO and Founding CRO
- 20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan
- What Happens When AI Kills Your SaaS Growth? Live Q&A with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- Box’s Big AI Leap: Aaron Levie on Agents & the Future of Work
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset
- 20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Sridhar's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| BIG TECHNOLOGYLEDGER | CEO, Snowflake | 3 | 65 | 73% 8/11 | full record on Big Technology → |
 NO PRIORSLEDGER | CEO, Snowflake | 2 | 39 | 60% 3/5 | full record on No Priors → |
| 20VCLEDGER | CEO, Snowflake | 1 | 34 | 50% 2/4 | full record on 20VC → |
| MADLEDGER | CEO, Snowflake | 1 | 33 | 100% 1/1 | full record on the MAD Podcast → |
| SOURCERYLEDGER | CEO, Snowflake | 1 | 21 | 67% 2/3 | full record on Sourcery → |
| SAASTRLEDGER | CEO, Snowflake | 1 | 13 | 67% 2/3 | full record on the Official SaaStr Podcast → |