Muglia: AWS will remain the leading cloud provider for the foreseeable future
Bob Muglia · Fireside Chat with Bob Muglia, CEO at Snowflake (FirstMark's Data Driven) · Apr 9, 2018 · at 21:22
Bob Muglia, CEO of Snowflake, evaluates the competitive landscape of major cloud infrastructure vendors at Data Driven NYC in 2018.
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“They're the leading cloud provider. We anticipate they'll be in that role, in that situation for the foreseeable future, perhaps, perhaps in, in, you know, certainly through my career.”
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