Chris Degnan

Former Chief Revenue Officer, Snowflake · 1 appearance on the record.

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Chris Degnan was employee #13 and the first sales hire at Snowflake, where he served as Chief Revenue Officer for 11 years and scaled revenue from $0 to over $3.5 billion. Today, he advises founders on enterprise go-to-market strategies and co-authored the book Make It Snow.

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Degnan: Snowflake locks down and blocks unauthorized LLMs in enterprise accounts
“Snowflake enables any large language model that the customer wants to use to get access to the data, but the customer has to approve those large language models. And so, you know, if an end user, you know, within a large enterprises decides to bring in a non-c…”
Chris Degnan Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 8:48 Snowflake's AI Revolution in Sales, Marketing and GTM with Snowflake‘s CMO and Founding CRO

Everything Chris Degnan said on the Official SaaStr Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Degnan: Snowflake AI tools save support team 418 hours per week
“As we rolled out, you know, our, you know, AI across our AI tools across our global support team, we saw 418 hours per week saved.”
Chris Degnan Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 27:59 Snowflake's AI Revolution in Sales, Marketing and GTM with Snowflake‘s CMO and Founding CRO
Assertion Supported
Degnan: Snowflake locks down and blocks unauthorized LLMs in enterprise accounts
“Snowflake enables any large language model that the customer wants to use to get access to the data, but the customer has to approve those large language models. And so, you know, if an end user, you know, within a large enterprises decides to bring in a non-c…”
Chris Degnan Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 8:48 Snowflake's AI Revolution in Sales, Marketing and GTM with Snowflake‘s CMO and Founding CRO
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Degnan: Snowflake deployed Cursor AI to solutions engineers in six weeks
“In just six weeks we were able to roll out cursor AI to create custom demos. And custom content a whole lot faster across the entire solutions engineering team.”
Chris Degnan Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 25:53 Snowflake's AI Revolution in Sales, Marketing and GTM with Snowflake‘s CMO and Founding CRO

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Snowflake's AI Revolution in Sales, Marketing and GTM with Snowflake‘s CMO and Founding CR Oct 16, 2025 11m
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