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Snowflake's Sridhar Ramaswamy: The biggest AI challenge for business leaders | Rapid Response

About Sridhar

  • CEO of Snowflake, leading $3.5B+ annual revenue business as of 2025.
  • Led Google's Ads business, scaling revenue from $1.5B to over $100B.
  • Co-founded Neeva, the world's first private, AI-powered search engine.
  • Pioneered AI strategy at Snowflake and secured major partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic.
  • Venture Partner at Greylock Partners and board member at Brown University.

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It’s been a wild few years for Snowflake, from a record-breaking IPO to a plummeting stock price to a data-breach scandal. Sridhar Ramaswamy took over in the heat of the turmoil and helped steady the ship, in part by betting big on AI. Ramaswamy returns to Rapid Response to share lessons from the company’s turnaround, including insights behind high profile partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic, how Snowflake embraced China’s Deepseek early, and why Ramaswamy calls Snowflake the most consequential AI-data company in the world.

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