Frank Slootman
Frank Slootman is a Dutch-American business executive who currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Snowflake Inc., having retired as the company's Chief Executive Officer on February 27, 2024. He is best known for leading three enterprise software companies through initial public offerings: Data Domain, ServiceNow, and Snowflake. Prior to Snowflake, he served as President and CEO of ServiceNow from 2011 to 2017, and previously led Data Domain as CEO until its acquisition by EMC.
“Databricks wiped the floor because they move product as the priority, not GTM.”
Source→“Frank Slootman — Former Snowflake CEO; Mashrabov's aspirational board member”
Source→“I remember one of the CEOs that we've worked with a couple of times, Frank Slootman, had this line about you either have the pain of failure or the pain of growth.”
Source→“When you have doubt, there's no doubt... The problem you have, Chris, is you have too much empathy.”
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