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How Snowflake Broke the Data Warehouse Mold
Most data companies built for storage. Snowflake built for speed—and created a $60 billion cloud business out of separating compute from storage. Lucas and Luna unpack the founding story: how Benoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes, two former Oracle engineers, bootstrapped an idea in a French ski town, raised from Sutter Hill without a finished product, and rewrote the rules of cloud data warehousing. They dig into Snowflake's controversial bet on proprietary file formats, the 'data cloud' network effect that locks in customers, and why the company's 2020 IPO—the largest…
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