Snowflake, every mention
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every year anyone Matt Turck 149Sridhar Ramaswamy 53Bob Muglia 34Benn Stancil 13Tomasz Tunguz 11Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) 7Tristan Handy 6Jordan Tigani 6Aaron Katz 6Matt Housley 5
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Snowflake comes up
Rewriting Success: What InfluxDB 3.0 Teaches About Scaling—and Scrapping—Your Core Tech
- ▶ 20:22 Evan Kaplan And we're now moving it to Snowflake or Databricks and do it.
Dashboards Are Dead: Sigma’s BI Revolution for Trillion-Row Data
- ▶ 0:26 Matt Turck Now, Sigma is reinventing BI by enabling anyone with spreadsheet skills to analyze massive amounts of data in Snowflake or Databricks in seconds.
- ▶ 7:29 Matt Turck So this is very interesting parallel with the Snowflake, uh, history. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:49 Mike Palmer Um, Anthropic, uh, doing, you know, if you know Dario, doing that deal with Snowflake is a clear attempt to make sure that they're as close as they can be to the enterprise data, that they're getting great performance, that they're…
- ▶ 29:37 Matt Turck That, right, I'll have more questions on, like, other parts of the other product, but, um, so what you're alluding to is this concept, uh, that has been known as the modern data stack, which is this, this concept, uh, of a chain of tools… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:19 Matt Turck So are you, so I won't have your comment on, on Sigma, but are you sort of saying, well, maybe Snowflake buys 2 times in the scene
Box’s Big AI Leap: Aaron Levie on Agents & the Future of Work
- ▶ 46:16 Matt Turck And we were talking about Snowflake a minute ago, and they did their, you know, Arctic model, and, you know, Databricks did, like, PJRX.
- ▶ 46:16 Matt Turck And we were talking about Snowflake a minute ago, and they did their, you know, Arctic model, and, you know, Databricks did, like, PJRX.
Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
- ▶ 0:14 Matt Turck We have a very special episode today with Shridhar Ramaswamy, the CEO of Snowflake, one of the most important public companies, not just in data and AI, but in technology in general. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:49 Matt Turck Very good place to start, uh, would be to talk about the recent evolution of Snowflake. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:14 Sridhar Ramaswamy They created a data cleaning application that, uh, that a different Snowflake customer can use to augment their data with the latest email address with the latest address. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:18 Sridhar Ramaswamy At Snowflake, in our storage layer, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:41 Sridhar Ramaswamy Um, Snowflake came of age as a proprietary data format company. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:17 Matt Turck And just to complete this kind of, um, architecture, uh, product tour, uh, Cortex, uh, the analyst, like what, what are, what are those in, in just a few words?
- ▶ 23:30 Sridhar Ramaswamy To be a core part of Snowflake. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:40 Sridhar Ramaswamy It's the idea of being able to ask a question about a structured data set that sits in Snowflake, and Snowflake Intelligence is the uber structure on top of all of this
- ▶ 25:31 Matt Turck To which extent has that background informed your product, uh, vision for Snowflake? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:36 Sridhar Ramaswamy And, uh, we looked for a place where we could deliver a lot of value and Snowflake became that place.
- ▶ 35:45 Sridhar Ramaswamy My original agreement with Frank, the Snowflake CEO, was that I would stay with Snowflake for six months. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:47 Sridhar Ramaswamy Actually, same here, because I don't want Snowflake to pay for it.
- ▶ 47:48 Sridhar Ramaswamy Snowflake, as you pointed out earlier, made its name as the best structured data store for analytical purposes that there is. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:50 Matt Turck Since we were, uh, talking about the iceberg stuff, can you, uh, maybe walk us through the strategic decision, um, because iceberg is so, uh, fascinating, um, in terms of, uh, you know, Snowflake was, was, even though that was separated,… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:47 Matt Turck Snowflake was at the center of, uh, you know, the red hot concept of, uh, 2021, 22, which was the modern data stack. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:25 Matt Turck Uh, there were, uh, rumors that I'm not gonna ask you to comment on specifically, um, uh, that, uh, Snowflake was looking at Red Panda as a potential acquisition. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:45 Matt Turck Switching to, um, a deeper dive into AI, which we've covered a little bit already, um, what's your sense of the reality of the markets in from the perspective of Snowflake customer, um, you know, in particular, the question of, uh, people… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:03 Matt Turck How do you think about, um, building your own models, which you've done, uh, to some extent with Arctic or to a very large extent with Arctic, uh, versus partnering?
- ▶ 1:19:14 Sridhar Ramaswamy With confidence, look at our customer and tell them that their data is not leaving the Snowflake deployment, and it's similarly with Microsoft and Azure and OpenAI.
- ▶ 1:19:58 Matt Turck Um, any, any thoughts on sort of, um, open source and how that fits within Snowflake?
- ▶ 1:21:41 Sridhar Ramaswamy A part of it is also about educating people on Snowflake, but the goal is very simple. 4 times in the scene
Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
- ▶ 7:27 Justin Borgman Snowflake was still a young company.
- ▶ 19:36 Justin Borgman You have a couple giant players in Databricks and Snowflake that are now looking for adjacent markets to continue to grow their TAM and justify their valuations and drive their revenue into the future.
Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
- ▶ 14:20 Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) One team's gonna be using, uh, Snowflake.
- ▶ 32:37 Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) I can, but it's, it's weird because that's also something that I've thought about for a little bit where it's like, we've spent, it feels like billions and billions of dollars every year just trying to extract data and put it into things… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:05 Matt Turck You know, that, uh, I saw you, you, uh, write in one of your, one of your posts, uh, which I thought was super interesting, especially, like, in contrast to, like, this whole, you know, titanic fight between Databricks and, and, and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:01 Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) Snowflake makes it really easy, and I'd say BigQuery does too, but Snowflake makes it really easy. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:48 Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) Um, so I think in those places, you're going to see people pick other tools, or maybe somehow have five different instances of, uh, iceberg, uh, or, you know, maybe they've, one's using Databricks, one's using Snowflake, one's using AWS,…
Dataiku's Secret to Scaling AI in Global Enterprises | Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku
- ▶ 48:50 Florian Douetteau Amazon or Databricks or Snowflake provide new technologies that we can integrate in order to further push the bar of what's simple to do in the enterprise, and that's our focus.
Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
- ▶ 30:11 Erik Bernhardsson Uh, and, and so, and then like, I think there's like sort of a similar thinking, you know, I, I met with the Snowflake team, like, you know, when they're still building the product super early 2 times in the scene
The Death of Big Data and Why It’s Time To Think Small | Jordan Tigani, CEO, MotherDuck
- ▶ 2:00 Jordan Tigani The, you know, the sort of Databricks versus Snowflake, kind of, they had this benchmarking war, and, um, and everybody is focused on, like, the, the, the, you know, the war between Databricks and Snowflake, and to me, the biggest thing… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:45 Matt Turck Uh, if you already have, uh, you know, BigQuery in place or Snowflake or Databricks or like the whole, like, big data, uh, kind of infrastructure or modern data stack, whatever you call it, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:09 Jordan Tigani Snowflake would be the query engine. 4 times in the scene
AI at Ramp: Making Every Team Radically More Productive | Eric Glyman, CEO, Ramp
- ▶ 16:20 Matt Turck Are you guys a Snowflake shop? 2 times in the scene
Making AI Work: Fine-Tuning, Inference, Memory | Sharon Zhou, CEO, Lamini
- ▶ 22:46 Sharon Zhou Similar to, you can think of as a Databricks or Snowflake model, um, of compute, like being able to manage that compute.
How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
- ▶ 3:01 Aaron Katz We're positioning the company and the technology as the real-time data warehouse in an effort to essentially create a category here that takes what technologies like Snowflake did so, so well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:30 Matt Turck So this, this, this, the snowflakes of the world, who's the sort of head on competitor, uh, that you face
- ▶ 25:48 Aaron Katz Um, in the cloud data warehouse market, to answer your question specifically around Snowflake, we do see demand for customers to migrate off of technologies like BigQuery, uh, and Redshift, and Snowflake, um, either for 2 times in the scene
How Airtable is Ushering 500,000 Organizations Into The Era of AI | Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable
AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
- ▶ 0:32 Tomasz Tunguz I think you'll see, like, Snowflake and Databricks being really inquisitive.
- ▶ 4:51 Tomasz Tunguz Ethereum is worth 7.6 snowflakes. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:45 Tomasz Tunguz Snowflake has user defined functions, Snowflake, Snowpark.
- ▶ 39:13 Tomasz Tunguz And so instead of spitting up a snowflake instance, you start on your computer.
- ▶ 49:31 Tomasz Tunguz When Looker went to market, we initially partnered with Snowflake, and we were bringing Snowflake into deals, and that worked really well, and then Snowflake started to grow really fast, and Snowflake was bringing Looker into deals, and… 5 times in the scene
The $9B Startup Going After Snowflake and Databricks | Renen Hallak, CEO of VAST Data
- ▶ 0:16 Matt Turck Vast is building the data layer for Generative AI, a huge market opportunity, which puts it in direct competition with Snowflake and Databricks.
- ▶ 6:43 Matt Turck Why did you, because, um, and maybe we can get into this at the same time, you know, there's a number of other companies that are hoping to be the software data layer for generative AI, like that's the Databricks of the world, there's the…
Navigating the AI Landscape: A Survival Guide | 2024 MAD Landscape with Matt Turck and Aman Kabeer
- ▶ 5:16 Matt Turck And the peak of the excitement was a snowflake IPO.
- ▶ 33:45 Matt Turck So it was all about like how you'd extract that data from your databases or your SaaS application, then move it into Snowflake, which
- ▶ 43:52 Matt Turck I think the, you know, the idea that, um, you should have, uh, a bunch of your data in, uh, one of those, uh, amazingly elastic repositories, uh, whether that's, uh, a data warehouse kind of, uh, thing like a snowflake, uh, or redshift, or… 4 times in the scene
2024 will be the year of ENTERPRISE AI | Florian Douetteau, CEO of Dataiku
- ▶ 0:28 Florian Douetteau AI and ML Partner for the year for Databricks, Snowflake, AWS.
- ▶ 22:58 Florian Douetteau And so we are part of this movement where typically our customers would also set up cloud data warehouses or data lake, such as Snowflake and Databricks, and we would be a layer on top, helping the overall orchestration and ease of use by… 3 times in the scene
AI's Killing Marketing. Ecosystem-Led Grow is the Future | Bob Moore, the CEO of Crossbeam
Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
- ▶ 6:41 Tristan Handy And I think that, um, the Snowflake IPO was a big part of this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:38 Tristan Handy There's just no world in which Tableau doesn't have a good Snowflake integration and it's still a viable, you know, tool.
- ▶ 15:56 Matt Turck So you mentioned, you know, we're not going to all go back to Microsoft, but, um, you know, if you look at players and like the, the key, uh, sort of central repositories like the, you know, snowflakes and the data breaks, like that, there… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:22 Matt Turck So this, like, this whole emergence of RAG as an, as an architecture, um, and there's a lot of stuff around vector databases, and, uh, I guess Snowflake is trying to say they are a vector database, too. 2 times in the scene
Custom LLMs at Scale: Lamini CEO Sharon Zhou’s Playbook for Enterprise AI
- ▶ 11:04 Sharon Zhou Maybe that's with some of our partners, like Snowflake, Databricks, and Nutanix.
Perplexity AI CEO on Dethroning Google & Redefining Search
- ▶ 11:31 Aravind Srinivas And those mature companies have most of their data in like Snowflake or Databricks. 2 times in the scene
From Xbox to Databricks: Carly Taylor’s Rebel Path in Data Science & Gaming AI
- ▶ 35:02 Matt Turck And I guess what, what are the, you know, the way you recommend people get started is that, uh, you know, you need to have like all, uh, modern data stack in place or go buy Snowflake or just put a bunch of, um, data on, on an S three.
The Single Platform for Everyday AI - Fireside Chat with Florian Douetteau (Dataiku) & Matt Turck
- ▶ 21:50 Matt Turck Uh, before we, we jump into general AI, quick, quick segue through the Databricks and Snowflake relationship. 2 times in the scene
LLM Powered Search | Vectara Founder & CEO, Amr Awadallah
- ▶ 15:33 Matt Turck Snowflake? 5 times in the scene
The 2023 MAD (Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Data) Landscape
- ▶ 9:09 Matt Turck You know, Snowflake made some announcements there.
The Composable CDP & The CX Hub | ActionIQ Founder & CEO, Tasso Argyros
- ▶ 6:42 Tasso Argyros If the data lives in Snowflake, that's where you execute the CDP queries for processing.
- ▶ 8:43 Tasso Argyros In which case, you want to execute as much as you can in Snowflake, but you may want to combine data from other sources.
- ▶ 10:51 Tasso Argyros And a lot of it revolves around the data lake or the data warehouse, whether it's a snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, um, and essentially what you're getting here in the middle is a customer data activation layer, which acts as a bridge to… 2 times in the scene
Data Visibility & Control | BigID Co-Founder & CEO Dimitri Sirota
- ▶ 31:22 Dimitri Sirota Yes, there was money because of the regulation, but as you know, from Snowflake and, you know, anywhere where you may already have data warehousing dollars and you're just creating a better solution.
A Cloud SQL Database Built for Survival | Cockroach CEO & Co-Founder, Spencer Kimball
- ▶ 2:20 Spencer Kimball And you contrast that to an analytical database like, uh, Snowflake or,
- ▶ 14:57 Spencer Kimball So if everyone in here is aware of Snowflake, I mean, they're, they're building on the, the cloud data storage primitives, like S three or Google cloud storage, and that's, that's a huge benefit by having that primitive, that's able,…
Leveraging People Data at Scale | ADP Chief Data Officer, Jack Berkowitz
- ▶ 4:39 Jack Berkowitz And we're on some of the data exchanges, you know, like the AWS one, or the Snowflake one, for example.
- ▶ 18:03 Matt Turck Uh, and, um, switching to the tools of the trade and the stack and all those, I mean, you guys seem to be a big, uh, Snowflake shop, or at least Snowflake seems very keen on telling that you're a big Snowflake shop. 5 times in the scene
Fundamentals of Data Engineering | Joe Reis and Matt Housley
- ▶ 14:41 Matt Housley Or, yeah, yeah, data engineers really need to know Spark, or they need to know Python, or they need to know Pandas, or Snowflake, or whatever technology it is.
- ▶ 23:26 Matt Housley And what I mean is that people will take, like, Snowflake and do a whole bunch of single row inserts into it. 4 times in the scene
Behavioral Data Creation for AI | Snowplow Co-Founder & CEO Alex Dean
Separating Data Hype From Substance | Fireside Chat with Mode Co-Founder Benn Stancil
- ▶ 12:04 Matt Turck Snowflake, which is like the company everybody loves, and that's actually the most highly valued, uh, software company in the world in terms of multiple, uh, and you, you wrote very interestingly, which I think is a fantastic, um, thought… 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:29 Benn Stancil You want to centralize it into your central warehouse, be it Snowflake or Databricks or BigQuery or whatever. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:45 Benn Stancil I don't know if it's as big as like web hosting stuff, but it becomes something where, like Snowflake's ambition to me. 6 times in the scene
Modern Data Orchestration | Astronomer Co-Founders Pete DeJoy & Viraj Parekh
- ▶ 2:20 Viraj Parekh Um, one thing I just want to point out about this, right, is architectures like this really have only become possible with the rise of folks like Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, and this idea that as a data practitioner, I can…
- ▶ 12:16 Pete DeJoy In order to actually write this dag, I'm doing some lightweight kind of snowflake transformation and data aggregation just with plain old SQL. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:12 Pete DeJoy So I can see both my tasks, i.e. those SQL queries and Python functions I just ran, predict user trends, and I can introspect the tables that they're actually producing in my snowflake instance under the hood.
A Novel Approach to Data Quality for the Modern Data Stack | Datafold’s Gleb Mezhanskiy
- ▶ 20:17 Gleb Mezhanskiy The way we do this is by performing, doing log analysis, so we would, let's say, if using Snowflake or Databricks, we would connect to Snowflake, we would download the logs of all the SQL statements that were executed, and then we are… 2 times in the scene
The Next Layer of the Modern Data Stack | dbt's Tristan Handy
- ▶ 7:56 Tristan Handy ELT is really allowing data analysts to go upstream and do, ah, the, the, the, you know, you, you extract the data from source data systems, you load it into, you know, originally Redshift, but now Snowflake and BigQuery and et cetera, um,…
- ▶ 21:49 Tristan Handy It's executing on Snowflake, or this is a Python-based data transformation.
Unlocking Data Observability with Monte Carlo's Barr Moses
- ▶ 4:42 Barr Moses So you're seeing companies like BigQuery with 1.5 billion dollars in revenue, Snowflake with a billion dollars in revenue,
- ▶ 13:39 Barr Moses Um, so we basically need read, uh, read-only access to, um, let's say like Snowflake and Looker, for example, and then what we do is, um, we start actually collecting sort of metadata and statistics about your data, and so what we do is we… 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Mark Grover (Co-Founder & CEO, Stemma) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 5:09 Mark Grover A curated data catalog is a catalog that generates essentially blank wiki pages for your data, and you may have a wiki page for a data set in ClickHouse or in Snowflake or in BigQuery, something like that, and then you may have a blank…
- ▶ 13:03 Mark Grover Or, uh, built-in access control in a system and in a data warehouse system like Snowflake or BigQuery or something like that.
Fireside Chat: Aaron Katz (Co-Founder & CEO, ClickHouse) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 18:02 Aaron Katz You've got Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake.
Top 10 Trends in AI, Machine Learning and Data for 2022
- ▶ 8:17 Matt Turck So with the snowflakes of the world, data breaks, and then the, the, you know, the hyperscaler cloud, uh, players, it feels like we can finally, um, store, uh, and process big data, which has unleashed lots of different things. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:05 Matt Turck So certainly like the snowflakes of the world and the data bricks of the, of the world, um, are, uh, doing, uh, a lot of things, have a lot of capabilities, and there's a whole ecosystem of companies that are centering around them. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:16 unnamed speaker So, um, we all know that, you know, the data warehouse has been coming around for a couple of years with Snowflake and IPO and the rapid adoption, you know, across everybody from small companies all the way through the enterprise.
- ▶ 31:58 Matt Turck And that, that sort of led to the whole Snowflake versus Databricks kind of world. 4 times in the scene