Frank Slootman

“Performance-centric thinking like this doesn't trend well with prevailing attitudes. Companies have become more fixated on their employees' MPS scores than their customers. They coddle their people. They get caught up in things that have nothing to do with the…”

“On the news, Snowflake stock was down 24 and a half percent, or seventeen billion dollars in market cap.”

“Good people don't want to be hired because they fit a demographic. We made a lot of money for our people, and we delivered more social justice this way than we ever could have pursuing other people's ideas of that.”

“In tech, value is a function of growth, so we ran our companies for growth, period.”

“We had some new hires quit in a matter of weeks, confessing they could not handle the pace And intensity at service now.”

“Organizations are not getting killed by their C players. Everybody knows who they are, and performance eventually is addressed. The people who kill organizations are your B players. It's the scourge of the enterprise, because there are many, and they are gener…”

“Quicking the pace also drives a narrow focus. You simply can't move very fast when you're pushing on too many fronts at the same time.”

“Data Domain took in twenty-eight million dollars of net capital and six years later returned 2.4 billion dollars to shareholders.”

“I think the reason that most leaders do not quote unquote amp it up is either because they settle into and get comfortable with a lower than exceptional standard that just becomes the norm for them, so they don't spot what exceptional performance looks like, o…”

“ServiceNow was also bootstrapped with no more than 6.5 million dollars in external funding. Only the second cloud software company after Salesforce to hit a billion dollars in revenues, ServiceNow reached two billion dollars in revenue just two years later.”

“The shock to the system will be profound, or you are perhaps not taking it far enough. People may squeal, but consider that a sign you are bringing it on.”