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Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman on moving the needle, win-first culture & managing burnout | E1689

This Week in Startups

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Silicon Valley Operating Principle

"You just literally neutered the entire Silicon Valley operating principle for the last 10 or 20 years," he says. "We have to make people feel psychologically safe because none of us are safe" The CEO can be fired by the board, and stock could plummet if a rival product is created that's one-tenth as expensive,. And it's, as you've said, nobody got fired for picking Microsoft, right? So you got to go in there and convince folks, Hey, pick snowflake over Microsoft."

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