Sridhar Ramaswamy
Sridhar Ramaswamy is the chief executive officer of Snowflake Inc., a cloud-based data-warehousing company, a position he has held since February 2024. He previously co-founded and served as CEO of Neeva, an ad-free, subscription-based search engine, which Snowflake acquired in 2023. Prior to Neeva, he spent fifteen years at Google, ultimately serving as senior vice president of advertising and commerce, during which time he helped grow the advertising business from $1.5 billion to over $100 billion. He holds a BTech from IIT Madras and MS and PhD degrees in computer science from Brown University.
“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.”
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