Sridhar Ramaswamy

12 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 6, 2021 by Sridhar Ramaswamy · said 7 times in 2 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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May 6, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Ramaswamy: Neeva will never use ads, affiliate links, or data sales
“Subscription search was the way to create a superior product and having really squeaky clean business principles, not just around no ads, but also around things like no affiliate links ever, No data getting packaged and sold ever being privacy first.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy May 6, 2021 ▶ 8:50 Why Ex-Google Ads Boss Sridhar Ramaswamy is Building An Ads-Free Search Engine
May 6, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Ramaswamy: I oversaw many of Google's ad load increases
“I was the exec in charge of many of the increases in ad load.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy May 6, 2021 ▶ 32:21 Why Ex-Google Ads Boss Sridhar Ramaswamy is Building An Ads-Free Search Engine
May 6, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Ramaswamy: I led the transition making Google Shopping an entirely paid property
“I was also the exec that was in charge of making all of the shopping property into a paid property.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy May 6, 2021 ▶ 26:28 Why Ex-Google Ads Boss Sridhar Ramaswamy is Building An Ads-Free Search Engine
May 6, 2021 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Ramaswamy: No company in history held 90%+ market share in a $100B+ market
“There has never been in the history of business, a company that has commanded 90 plus market share in a market that's like a hundred plus billion dollars.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy May 6, 2021 ▶ 5:41 Why Ex-Google Ads Boss Sridhar Ramaswamy is Building An Ads-Free Search Engine
Sep 6, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ramaswamy: Chatbots like Pi and Character.ai rely on gimmicks for long-term memory
“You know, they don't really have things like long-term memory. Like there's a bunch of technical gimmicks That people can use to have these bots pretend like they have long-term state.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Sep 6, 2023 ▶ 9:00 Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
Sep 6, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ramaswamy: Conversational search sharply increased comparison queries at Neeva
“We don't look at sort of individual queries. That's one of the no-no's of any search engine. And so, like, we would do things like analysis on the length of queries, what sort of quality that that, that we would serve. But as I said, comparison queries increas…”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Sep 6, 2023 ▶ 9:50 Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
Sep 6, 2023
Disclosure
Ramaswamy: Google merged organic and paid shopping to eliminate duplicate search engines
“Google used to have organic shopping. I famously made combined organic shopping and paid shopping because I was like, all of this is commercial content. I can't have four search engines on one search page. With organic shopping, paid shopping paid text adverti…”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Sep 6, 2023 ▶ 21:20 Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
Sep 6, 2023 negative
Opinion
Ramaswamy: Calls for a six-month AI moratorium are absurd
“I found things like the call for a moratorium for six months to be absurd.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Sep 6, 2023 ▶ 46:13 Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
Feb 12, 2026 neutral
Opinion
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.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 34:53 Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
Feb 12, 2026 bearish
Opinion
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…”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 30:35 Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
Feb 12, 2026 negative
Opinion
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.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 33:59 Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
Feb 12, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ramaswamy: None of the 20 Davos executives he met deployed AI agents
“I probably met 20 odd CEOs, CIOs, lots of partners. And my sort of SOPs, standard operating procedure for each of these meetings would be, I would ask our sales agent for information about the customer. What's the state of our relationship with? Take your pick…”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 20:25 Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
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