In this episode, host Hamza Choudery is joined by Sridhar Ramaswamy, the CEO of Snowflake. Before taking the helm at Snowflake, Sridhar scaled Google's ads business from ~$1B to $115 billion and founded one of the first AI search companies, Neeva (which was acquired by Snowflake in 2023).
During the episode, he discusses:
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[00:00] Up next:
[00:29] Episode introduction
[01:28] Autoblocks: AI Optimization Platform
[01:52] Sridhar's journey
[08:47] The birth of Neeva and the GPT moment
[13:32] Lesson from Google for startups
[16:19] The Snowflake acquisition
[21:48] Snowflake's AI product strategy
[26:35] Snowflake's internal and external AI applications
[28:39] Snowflake Cortex
[30:37] The future of the foundation model layer
[34:52] The AI data flywheel
[38:09] Building reliable LLMs
[41:52] Lightning round
[43:08] Sridhar's hottest AI take
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Building with AI is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with top AI product builders and leaders. Through thoughtful dialogue, host Hamza Choudery (Co-founder of Autoblocks) uncovers tactical insights that help listeners build & scale world-class AI products.
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