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How to Build a Snowflake (Frank Slootman, Chairman & CEO of Snowflake)

B2BaCEO (with Ashu Garg)

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The Importance of Intellectual Honesty

I find it's very, I've seen businesses not doing well and people are not willing to really, really, you know, inspect what is going on. They'd rather come to conclusions that they can talk to their partnership about than see things as there really are. We need to learn intellectual honesty. And when things are not going well, what is the real reason? You know, we fire a lot of sales BP's when we have product problems. That's intellectual dishonesty. Because you want to sell, you want to fire the sales BP because you can't handle the fact that your product sucks. Right. By the way, that happens in venture capital all the time. Yeah

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