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AGI is Surely Coming with Former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia

Dec 5, 2023
59:14

Today we have the former CEO of Snowflake, a 23 year veteran of Microsoft, Bob Muglia on the show. In this interview, we discuss Bob's book, Datapreneurs, which takes you on a journey about the people behind the first relational databases in the 1970s and early 80s, to Bob's experience launching Microsoft SQL Server and a ton of other products, developing the Data Cloud at Snowflake, and to the future of data and AI.

We cover a lot of ground, including some of his experience working alongside the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.

Timestamps:

02:24 Introduction

04:53 Relational Databases

18:43 Speed of Innovations

24:30 Keeping the Early Stage Culture

31:04 Most successful leaders are difficult to deal with

34:31 Setting up Cloud Data Center at home

36:25 Joining Snowflake as the CEO

38:54 AWS made Snowflake happen

42:18 Google, AWS Missing the Snowflake Opportunity

46:13 Impact On Jobs

50:48 Existential Risk

52:28 Staying Optimistic


Links:

The Datapreneurs: The Promise of AI and the Creators Building Our Future

https://www.thedatapreneurs.com/


Follow Bob: https://twitter.com/Bob_Muglia

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