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Zima: Major Tech Platforms Do Not Care About Early-Stage Startups
“There are gigantic tech partners like Snowflake and Databricks and Google and Amazon. They don't care about you when you're two people or 10 people or whatever.”
Woollen: BI tools and cloud warehouses are useless on their own
“Any of the products in this market are basically useless by themselves. So like, SIGMA is not useful unless you can connect it to a, something like a Snowflake or a Databricks. A Snowflake or a Databricks just by itself is not that useful. You need something t…”
Yoo: Snowflake was first to cross $1B in AWS Marketplace revenue
“You know, one of our customers, Snowflake, for example, they were the first to cross a billion dollars in just AWS marketplace revenue alone.”
Sigma built a spreadsheet-to-SQL prototype in three weeks for a Snowflake meeting
“And so, we once again threw away everything we'd done, and in essentially, I think about three weeks between the time we set the meeting, when we actually showed up there, we built a brand new interface, one that looks like a tiny part of our product right now…”
Woollen: Cloud data warehouses traditionally locked data behind SQL and Python
“And our key insight was that companies increasingly move a large majority of their data into these large cloud data systems like a Snowflake or a Databricks or Google BigQuery. And those systems traditionally, you could really only access them directly if you …”