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Feb 2022
53m 51s

Frank Slootman - Narrow the Focus, Incre...

Colossus | Investing & Business Podcasts
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My guest today is Frank Slootman, Chairman and CEO of cloud platform Snowflake. Frank has become one of the most revered CEOs in business. Over the past twenty years, he has three times taken over emerging enterprise software businesses – first Data Domain, then ServiceNow, and most recently Snowflake - and led them across the chasm into large, billion-dolla ... Show More
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