Meet Snowflake Intelligence: A Personalized Enterprise Intelligence Agent with Sridhar Ramaswamy

Hi, listeners. Welcome back to No Priors. Today, I'm here with Sridhar Ramaswamy, the CEO of Snowflake, the former founder of Neeva and the SVP of Google Ads. Ads. We will talk about his first eighteen months of being CEO, the incredible execution over that time in shifting a company at scale to being AI first, where the enterprise ROI is, and what happens to the cloud service providers and the ads model in the age of AI. Welcome, Sridhar. Sara, really excited to be back. Well, it's a it's a pleasure to talk to you as, an old friend and colleague. The last time we spoke, you were on the entrepreneurial journey That's right. Doing Search Still. You're now eighteen months into being CEO of Snowflake. It has been a very eventful eighteen months. Mhmm. Tell us a little bit just about the journey from, you know, taking the mantle from Frank to, you know, the first few months to where you guys are today. I think the the market's reacted in many ways. Yeah. Most recently, incredibly well to the execution, but I'm it's it's been a journey. That's right. That's right. Snowflake has always been an amazing product company. The original product that Benoit theory conceived ten plus years ago was many years ahead of its time, and it took the world by storm. And, obviously, they had the Storied IPO, the biggest software IPO of it at that time. I think what happened was the company was a little slow to reacting to changes from things like machine learning and AI. And that was a little bit of, honestly, the reason why Frank voluntarily pushed for the change because he felt presciently that we are headed into a time that was just a lot more tumultuous from a product perspective, and he wanted someone that was product first to be in charge of the company. And the last eighteen months have really been about embracing that wave of change. And if you look back to what's happened in the last, you know, two years, it's crazy how much change has happened with respect to AI, how it's become commonplace every day in all of our lives, and then the speed at which things are still getting driven through. I think the really amazing thing about Snowflake is the company embraced this change, transformed itself, and then showed that not only can we do it from a product perspective, which one could have expected, but we also done significant things to retool our marketing or go to market overall. I think that transformation has been pretty amazing to watch. But, you know, times can be difficult. Last year, there were a lot of doubters, but there were a lot of us who believed both in the value that Snowflake was already creating. And the reason I took this job was because I talked to a whole lot of customers before I became CEO. They all loved Snowflake, …