No Priors Ep. 139 | With Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy

In this episode of No Priors, Sarah Guo interviews Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, about his first 18 months in the role and the company's shift to becoming AI-first. Sridhar discusses the tactical changes he implemented, focusing on accountability and faster iteration, and how Snowflake is positioning itself as the AI data cloud. He explains the launch of Snowflake Intelligence, an agentic platform designed to accelerate value creation from data, and shares insights on navigating the competitive landscape with cloud service providers and AI model companies. The conversation also covers high-ROI use cases for AI in enterprise, the future of advertising in chat interfaces, and the relevance of traditional information retrieval techniques in the age of large language models.