Snowflake
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Founded in 2012 by Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, and Marcin Zukowski, Snowflake was built to solve the limitations of traditional data warehouses by separating storage from compute and building natively for the cloud. The company went public in September 2020 in what was the largest software IPO in history at the time, raising $3.4 billion and reaching a market cap of $70 billion on its first day of trading. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and Salesforce both invested in the IPO. Today Snowflake serves over 9,000 customers across financial services, healthcare, retail, and media, and has expanded into the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, offering a unified platform for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, and AI model development.
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Benoit Dageville
Co-Founder / President of Products
Benoit Dageville is the co-founder and President of Products at Snowflake. A former Oracle data warehousing architect with over 20 years of experience, he co-invented the core architecture of Snowflake's cloud-native data platform. Benoit's deep expertise in query optimization and distributed systems has been the technical foundation of Snowflake's extraordinary performance advantages over traditional databases.
Thierry Cruanes
Co-Founder / CTO
Thierry Cruanes is the co-founder and CTO of Snowflake. Also a former Oracle engineer with deep expertise in database engines and query processing, he co-designed Snowflake's revolutionary separation of storage and compute that allows customers to scale each independently. His technical vision has enabled Snowflake to handle workloads at scales that were previously impossible for traditional data warehouse architectures.
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