Quotesby GlyphSridhar Ramaswamy quotes on AI, with sources
CEO, Snowflake · 33 quotes · latest Sep 2, 2026
- AI continues to compound our advantages, creating a flywheel effect across the business.
- With Cortex Code and Snowflake Intelligence, we are extending from the trusted foundation for enterprise data and context to become the control plane for the Agentic Enterprise.
- This past year has been transformative for every business, as the promise of AI became real, and Snowflake sits at the center of the enterprise AI revolution.
- Anthropic joins a very select group of partners where we have nine-figure alignment, co-innovation at the product level, and a proven track record of executing together for customers worldwide.
- Snowflake Intelligence, our enterprise AI agent, saw the fastest adoption ramp in Snowflake history and is transforming how businesses interact with their data, delivering real-time, actionable intelligence.
- Snowflake delivered yet another strong quarter, with product revenue of $1.09 billion, up a strong 32% year-over-year...
- And my take for example is that at the end of the day, a BI tool is a 2D structure that is trying to represent a very complex multidimensional world and if you can imagine a dataset with just like 10 or 12 dimensions, trust me, there’s no simple dashboard that can represent that.
- But business models also have shelf lives, and sometimes it’s very hard to disrupt yourself with a model that might not make any money when you’re making $200 billion on that model.
- I love the hyperscalers that we work with but I tell people that they’re really 300 GMs that are all competing to have their product line succeed.
- I tell them any inefficient computation that a customer is running is a ticking time bomb, because they’re going to inevitably find out and be really upset about it.
- You know what I think, I think it was a mistake to think of storage as a revenue stream.
- 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.
- I think we are redefining the line between product and services thanks to AI and thanks to agentic capabilities.
- We absolutely were taking on the right problem probably two to three years too early.
- So I would say Search is under siege from both sides, from both the common things that you want simple answers to, and the complex things where you can apply very different techniques from what you have done before.
- When people give me choices about speed or quality, my answer is, “Yes”.
- Today, Snowflake is the most consequential data and AI company in the world.
- Our obsessive drive to produce product cohesion and ease of use has built Snowflake into the easiest and most cost effective enterprise data platform.
- And if you, like, take the best model on the planet and let it loose on an arbitrary schema, the likelihood that it’s actually going to understand the nuance of what’s in there, close to zero.
- Consumer choice is fiction in a whole bunch of things that we do. We eat what’s put in front of us and we will search with the default search engine that came in our browsers.
- We were terrified, and we put a pile of money into it and nothing came off it. And it didn’t matter. Why? Because the cost of a disruption is way higher than the amount of investment that you have to make.
- And these models react pretty violently to the addition of a period in a prompt. And so I think there needs to be this idea that you need good old fashioned software engineering, and you need to measure the performance of these things.
- So for example, I tell people you have no business believing the raw output of a language model for anything. You can’t actually do any business with that because it’s ungrounded.
- I tell them, “Hey, listen, this is the world of AI. Stuff changes every week, and you need to build with that speed.”
- At Neeva, which converged onto a view of what search should be that was very similar to Perplexity, we were just two, three years early. And timing ends up being everything.
- And my firm belief all through my life is that virtuosity trumps strategy all day long.
- All of us are eminently manipulatable. The brands you're going to remember are the ones that showed you ads, whether you cared for them or not.
- My take is that much of the benefits of scale in technology that could have come to larger society have gone to individual companies because of the ads model.
- And, this is where I will say again, competition is not a click away. That's, like, a myth that is perpetuated by incumbents.
- The blunt truth of the matter is that search costs maybe a billion dollars to run.
- The dominant search engine in this role has become much more about serving itself, serving advertisers.
- But, another way to think about search is that it is the ultimate expression of human curiosity.
- The magic of AdWords, the magic of online advertising, is that the core concept in it is a click.
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Topics: Enterprise AI, Agents, Data, Strategy, Earnings, Search