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Jeremy Burton

GM, Observability Business Unit, Snowflake · 1 appearance on the record.

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Burton previously held senior executive leadership roles at companies such as Oracle, Symantec, EMC, and Dell Technologies. He led observability startup Observe as CEO until Snowflake acquired the company in 2026, and he currently serves on the board of directors at Unqork.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 assertions · 3 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Jeremy argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Burton: Enterprises can burn down Snowflake commits by purchasing Observe
“Where it does play out in the larger accounts, obviously through, let's say the Snowflake marketplace, an enterprise customer may have a big commit with Snowflake. Well, they can actually burn down that commit by buying Observe.”
Jeremy Burton Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 16:53 Snowflake's CEO on the AI Data Cloud, Partner Strategy, and What’s Next

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

Insight
Burton: Sub-100ms query latency is not required for enterprise SaaS apps
“There was a bunch of folks who had a theory that every query had to return in a hundred milliseconds, which I would like that as well, but that's just not required in an enterprise SaaS application, and so they wanted to build their own database.”
Jeremy Burton Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 12:54 Snowflake's CEO on the AI Data Cloud, Partner Strategy, and What’s Next
Insight
Burton: Building on Snowflake hurts initial gross margins before optimization
“Because in the short term, your gross margins are going to be worse than comparative companies, because obviously you've got to pay the Snowflake bill. But if you're committed, you'll figure out a way how to exploit the unique features of the platform. You'll …”
Jeremy Burton Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 14:02 Snowflake's CEO on the AI Data Cloud, Partner Strategy, and What’s Next
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Burton: Observe has tens of millions in revenue with 60% gross margins
“And look, as we said today, amount of gross margins were, you know, tens of millions of revenue, and the gross margins are already up around 60%.”
Jeremy Burton Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 14:21 Snowflake's CEO on the AI Data Cloud, Partner Strategy, and What’s Next
Insight
Burton: Poorly documented past root causes are the major troubleshooting bottleneck
“The biggest problem we have right now is You see a problem. You think it's something you've never seen before. Actually you have, you just never root caused it. You never documented it properly. And by the way, when you need to search it, you can't find it.”
Jeremy Burton Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 36:16 Snowflake's CEO on the AI Data Cloud, Partner Strategy, and What’s Next
Disclosure
Burton: Observe is built entirely on Snowflake infrastructure
“How much of Observe is? Jeremy Burton: 100%.”
Jeremy Burton Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 12:08 Snowflake's CEO on the AI Data Cloud, Partner Strategy, and What’s Next
Assertion Supported
Burton: Enterprises can burn down Snowflake commits by purchasing Observe
“Where it does play out in the larger accounts, obviously through, let's say the Snowflake marketplace, an enterprise customer may have a big commit with Snowflake. Well, they can actually burn down that commit by buying Observe.”
Jeremy Burton Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 16:53 Snowflake's CEO on the AI Data Cloud, Partner Strategy, and What’s Next
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Burton: Observe ingests 1PB of data and runs 190M Snowflake queries daily
“We do a hundred and ninety million Snowflake queries a day, and we ingest a petabyte of data.”
Jeremy Burton Jun 18, 2025 ▶ 24:15 Snowflake's CEO on the AI Data Cloud, Partner Strategy, and What’s Next

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Snowflake's CEO on the AI Data Cloud, Partner Strategy, and What’s Next Jun 18, 2025 6m
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