Cloud data warehousing platform.
“Vanta. Trust and compliance automation platform used by Cursor, Ramp, Duolingo, Snowflake, and Atlassian.”
Source→“One of the tricks I use is I ask myself, what should Sirdar do? Sirdar is the CEO of Snowflake, who we've worked with for a long time... merge with DBT, absolutely.”
Source→“Sridhar Ramaswamy (Sirdar) — CEO of Snowflake. Used by Fraser as a mental model for evaluating bold strategic decisions.”
Source→“Snowflake yesterday defied SaaS stock gravity, after reporting better-than-expected numbers on both the top and bottom lines.”
Source→“OpenRouter raised '$113 million...at a $1.3 billion post-money valuation' with participation from six major enterprise-tech strategic investors simultaneously (NVentures, ServiceNow, MongoDB, Snowflake, Databricks, and a16z).”
“OpenRouter 'routes AI inference requests across proprietary and open-source language models.' The strategic pile-on of six enterprise investors signals that incumbents view model-routing as critical infrastructure.”
“OpenRouter, an AI model marketplace, raised $113m led by CapitalG at a $1.3 [billion] valuation. CapitalG led, joined by a16z, Menlo Ventures, NVentures, ServiceNow Ventures, MongoDB, Snowflake, and Databricks.”
“OpenRouter, an AI model marketplace, raised $113m led by CapitalG at a $1.3 [billion] valuation. CapitalG led, joined by a16z, Menlo Ventures, NVentures, ServiceNow Ventures, MongoDB, Snowflake, and Databricks.”
“The best board member that I've ever seen is Mike Spizer. In building Snowflake, that guy was so involved in the product.”
Source→“John would come in... John opens his mouth when we're talking about sales... John doesn't say a lot in the board meeting. He spends a lot of time with you, understanding the business and telling you that you're fucking up one-on-one.”
Source→“Chris Degnan... took Snowflake from zero to over $4 billion in ARR. No other sales leader has taken a company from nothing to that scale before.”
Source→“When you have doubt, there's no doubt... The problem you have, Chris, is you have too much empathy.”
Source→“Dust...raised a $40M Series B from Sequoia and Abstract; Snowflake and Datadog participating.”
“Two AI deals stand out for their investor syndicate quality: Sigma ($80M Series E at $3B, backed by ServiceNow Ventures, Workday, and Databricks alongside traditional VCs) and Dust ($40M Series B, with Snowflake and Datadog co-investing alongside Sequoia).”
“Dust ($40M Series B, with Snowflake and Datadog co-investing alongside Sequoia). Led by Abstract Ventures and Sequoia Capital.”
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