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05/14/24 | 37 min

Unlocking Enterprise AI with Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO at Snowflake

Episode Overview

To kick off the fifth season of The Data Cloud Podcast, Steve is joined by our CEO, Sridhar Ramaswamy. In this episode, Sridhar shares how there’s no AI strategy without data strategy, the journey of creating a foundation model from scratch, and why he believes AI is the glue that will bind enterprise software together.

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Sridhar RamaswamyCEO at Snowflake

Sridhar Ramaswamy currently serves as Snowflake’s CEO. After joining Snowflake in May 2023 in connection with the company’s acquisition of Neeva, the world’s first private AI powered search engine, Ramaswamy spearheaded Snowflake’s AI strategy as SVP of AI. Prior to joining Snowflake, Ramaswamy co-founded Neeva in 2019.

Prior to founding Neeva, Ramaswamy led Google’s core product, developer, data infrastructure and privacy divisions, as well as Google’s Advertising products, which included search, display and video advertising, analytics, shopping, payments, and travel. During his 15 years at Google he was an integral part of the growth of AdWords and Google’s advertising business from $1.5 billion to over $100 billion. Ramaswamy also held research positions at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). Ramaswamy was a Venture Partner at Greylock Partners from October 2018 until recently, and he sits on the board of trustees at Brown University.

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Steve HammHost, Author, and Journalist

Steve Hamm is an award winning journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker. He has been writing about the tech industry for more than 30 years, including journalism stints at BusinessWeek and the San Jose Mercury News. His book credits include Bangalore Tiger, The Race For Perfect, Making the World Work Better, Smart Machines, and soon to be released - The Rise of the Data Cloud.


 

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