Sridhar Ramaswamy

11 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 10, 2025 by Sridhar Ramaswamy · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Apr 10, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Ramaswamy originally agreed to stay at Snowflake for six months
“My original agreement with Frank, the Snowflake CEO, was that I would stay with Snowflake for six months.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 35:45 Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
Apr 10, 2025 neutral
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Ramaswamy: Snowflake has zero tolerance for 18-month projects without value
“At Snowflake itself, for example, I am very flat with my team that I do not have any tolerance for 18 month projects. If you tell me that you're going to start on a rewrite, and it's going to take you 18 months before it shows any value, you know, it's not, yo…”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 54:59 Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
Apr 10, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ramaswamy: Snowflake will gain more revenue from Iceberg than lose in storage
“I expect us, me and the team, To drive way more revenue in new things we can do with Iceberg, then we are going to lose, potentially, by some of our storage revenue going out to cloud storage”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 1:00:52 Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
Apr 10, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ramaswamy: Google's ad spam team had over 150 people when he left
“I had entire teams devoted. It's called an ad spam team. Like when I left, I think they had more than a 150 people.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 52:37 Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Opinion
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.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 58:53 Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
Apr 10, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Ramaswamy says he is happy to spend 5 to 10 years at Snowflake
“That's part of what made me decide that I'd be happy spending five or 10 years at this place.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 38:33 Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
Apr 10, 2025
Insight
Ramaswamy: Unsuccessful startups accumulate cruft due to finite shelf lives
“Companies have shelf lives. Once you spend a certain number of years going at something, if you haven't achieved enough success, you also tend to accumulate a lot of cruft that becomes very hard to discard.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 33:48 Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Ramaswamy: Neeva reached a $300M valuation on under $1M revenue
“We raised too much money. Our valuation was three hundred million dollars for a company barely making a million. That just was not okay.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 34:44 Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Opinion
Ramaswamy compares April 2025 market volatility to early COVID-19 pandemic
“I think tumultuous is appropriate. I feel like We are in day two of the pandemic where we all knew something was wildly different, but we didn't quite know what. So it has that sort of something's big, but we don't quite know kind of feeling to it.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 2:16 Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Opinion
Ramaswamy: App store search platforms are terrible and show irrelevant ads
“If you compare more recent platforms for search platforms, for example, app store searches, they're truly terrible. Even when you ask highly precise questions, they will show you completely irrelevant ads.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 30:46 Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
Apr 10, 2025
Insight
Ramaswamy: Early-stage startups need magic built by five or six people
“I think there is virtue in taking, for example, just a few million dollars and saying the first version of a company needs to be built with five, six people in a relatively short period of time, and there needs to be some magic. And if there is not that magic,…”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 34:20 Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race
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