The Ledger
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Slootman: Mass layoffs expose the hypocrisy of Google and Salesforce family cultures
“Companies like Salesforce and even Google come to mind, but you know, in the end they're laying people off too, by the thousands. Okay. So I guess it's not family after all.”
Salesforce and Google mass layoffs prove tech companies are not families
“Companies like Salesforce and even Google come to mind, but you know, in the end they're laying people off too, by the thousands. Okay. So I guess it's not family after all.”
Text-to-SQL is table stakes and largely better than traditional dashboards
“Now the whole text to SQL has become, you know, table stakes. I mean, you can interrogate, you know you know, Salesforce data on Snowflake, you know, what just text to SQL. And it's really nice by the way. I mean, hell, it's all a lot better than using dashboa…”
Slootman calls AI among the most disruptive shifts in software history
“I mean, it's one of the most disruptive things I've ever seen happening in, in, in the world of software in all my years you know, of doing things”
AI will drastically amplify reality distortion and opportunities for abuse
“Obviously this can take that to the nth degree. You know, I mean, it can change the realities. How's that gonna go, right? You can see the opportunities for abuse becoming extraordinary.”
Slootman dismisses focusing on executive legacy as self-absorbed
“People sometimes ask me, what's your legacy? Legacy is not a word that I use. Okay. It's not, I find that very sort of a lot of self-absorption around that stuff. Like, you know, I need to live beyond the grave. I really don't need to, and I don't want to be, …”