HIGHLIGHTS: Sridhar Ramaswamy - CEO of Snowflake

Hi everybody, tune in to this short version of the podcast, which we do every Friday. For the long version, tune in on Wednesdays. Hi everyone, I'm Nikolai Tanyan, the CEO of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, and today I'm joined by Srida Ramaswamy, the CEO of Snowflake. Snowflake is basically the data platform that many of the world's biggest companies run on. So when your bank approves a loan or when a hospital pulls together patient data, Snowflake is often the engine.

underneath. Shrew spent 15 years at Google where he built the advertising business from 1.5 billion to over $100 billion. Then he walked away to start his own company and two years later he became the CEO of Snowflake. Now here at NBM we are investors in Snowflake and we are also big users of the products. We have two petabytes of data in Snowflake which is the equivalent of 2 million gigabytes.

And we have roughly three million queries into the database every day. So big welcome, Shridar. Thank you, Nikolai. Happy to be here, excited for the conversation. First of all, um, how would you describe Snowflake to somebody who's never heard of it?

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