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Creating the "AI Data Cloud" of the future | Sridhar Ramaswamy (CEO of Snowflake)

Jul 17, 2024
44:50

In this episode, host Hamza Choudery is joined by Sridhar Ramaswamy, the CEO of Snowflake. Before taking the helm at Snowflake, Sridhar scaled Google's ads business from ~$1B to $115 billion and founded one of the first AI search companies, Neeva (which was acquired by Snowflake in 2023).

During the episode, he discusses:

  • The first principles for AI product building,
  • The importance of product velocity,
  • The future of the foundation model layer,
  • Creating data flywheels with AI,
  • And much more!

[00:00] Up next:

[00:29] Episode introduction

[01:28] Autoblocks: AI Optimization Platform

[01:52] Sridhar's journey

[08:47] The birth of Neeva and the GPT moment

[13:32] Lesson from Google for startups

[16:19] The Snowflake acquisition

[21:48] Snowflake's AI product strategy

[26:35] Snowflake's internal and external AI applications

[28:39] Snowflake Cortex

[30:37] The future of the foundation model layer

[34:52] The AI data flywheel

[38:09] Building reliable LLMs

[41:52] Lightning round

[43:08] Sridhar's hottest AI take

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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with top AI product builders and leaders. Through thoughtful dialogue, host Hamza Choudery (Co-founder of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that help listeners build & scale world-class AI products.

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