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CEO, Snowflake · Mar 27, 2025 1 year ago · Interview, Stratechery interview with Ben Thompson, on AI reliability, Snowflake and AI

Because roughly speaking, if you put a chat bot in front of a person, one of the first questions they’re going to ask is, “What will my revenue be 15 years from now?”, which no model has any business answering.

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Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO, Snowflake
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