Frank Slootman: Doing Less, Doing Better

I rarely use the word proud or pride because that that signals, you know, a uh profound happiness with the status quo. And I don't have that, you know, because I'm always at odds with the status quo. That's sort of the the natural malcontent posture that we have. Yeah, we're here, but we could be there. So what gives? How do we get there? Right. So we're always envisioning a future that is different than the one that we're that we're currently experiencing. Welcome to the Knowledge Project, a podcast about mastering the best of what other people have already figured out, so you can apply their insights. to your life.

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Check out the show notes for link. Today my guest is Frank Slootman, one of the most incredible operators that Silicon Valley has ever seen. Frank is the chairman and CEO of Snowflake. Before that he was the CEO of ServiceNow, taking the organization from 100 million in revenue to 1.4 billion. Prior to that. He was the CEO of Data Domain.

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