What is the core of your being, right? I mean, it gets rid of you. Never heard of that company." And we publish the data transparently on our site, so anyone can come and see what actually happened in the auction. Obviously, I was a young man and not even in my mid-30s and I'm taking over a whole business, a whole organization, global, all this kind of stuff, so, it was a hell of. I'm a miserable golfer, but somewhere along, the 18 holes, he's like, "I'll do it, but don't leave me again." That takes very different approaches, orientation, skill sets, and so on what you do. A decade after his death, fantasy artist Frank Frazetta still towers over the pop culture landscape as new fans discover his work. So, we started to wind down a little bit. It was sort of an adjunct to what they called the computer industry back then. In other words, you got to really mean it, okay? In this technological era, the field of analytics is vital as it makes it easy to access needed information without much of a hassle. Nothing to do with financial targets or growth targets or market capitalization. And I have to, the moment I start sitting in my ivory tower and rely on reporting from people all over the place, we're in a world of hurt. And when you're burned out, you don't regenerate anymore. It was very formative. The 61-year old Dutch executive's first CEO job was at an early-stage startup called Data Domain that made specialized storage hardware. And that's all coming up right after this. He cuts back where he sees fit. And the EMC came in and within a quarter, it was up to a $100 million because they had channels and customers and everything primed and ready, right? And you had literally physical media that could logistically manage. Learn how your comment data is processed. The founder brings you in to scale up the company, but finds it difficult to step aside. And my email just dribbled down to nothing and all this kind of thing." Frank Horvat helped elevate fashion photography into high art, and with his thoughtful photographs, changed how we look at fashion altogether. So, understanding that is really important because obviously, you can't fight it off unless you understand where it's coming from. Why did you give up the helm of the invisible hand for this new role with Snowflake? By the close of. It still runs as an auction in rounds of 30 seconds and final price were used as the benchmark for the entire gold market. Chiefs defensive lineman Chris Jones recorded his first sacks of his postseason career in a redemptive victory, and his linemate Frank Clark stepped up in the playoffs once again. None of that stuff is material to your mission. There's new business models. Slootman moved to Silicon Valley in 1997. They're very safe. Leaders such as Slootman, Scott McNealy , Jayshree Ullal and my old boss Pat McGovern have inspired me over the. Well, they knew now. Mar 11, 2021, 11:30 ET. But you think that your upbringing in the Netherlands gave you a unique perspective on business and success, that's helped you throughout your career? And I had already made a little bit of a name for myself in the company. That's the point of it. I mean, you brought in some reinforcements when you started at Snowflake, including Michael Scarpelli, who was your CFO at Data Domain and ServiceNow. This is really think about it as a database in the Cloud. I mean, Dutch people are incredibly hard driving, no nonsense, can't suffer bullshit type of people. But backup recovery still largely dependent on tape and tape automation technology, so we created a tape. Frank Slootman currently serves as Chairman and CEO at Snowflake. Having run a number of global software companies, I appreciate the scope of resources that Blackstone can bring to high-growth . And he and I have very short conversations because by the time we start asking the question, we already know what the answer is type of thing. And then being able to talk about it in an intelligent, really rich-considered manner. While everything about Snowflake is hot in the market, were left asking who is at the helm of it all. So, we came up with this war cry that said, "Tape sucks, move on." It's just, it's hard not to be acquainted at some level with that culture. Then, they discuss Frank's hiring philosophy and how to create a winning relationship between an executive and their direct reports . We'll do something good with it. Before accepting the Snowflake CEO job, Slootman was retired and racing sailboats competitively in the San Francisco Bay Area. The perception in Holland of United States is very, and I don't want to use the word biased, that might be too strong. What you're doing now is doing pretty good, so keep yourself in the game, Frank. When I was interviewing with ServiceNow, I said to the board, "I want to bring Mike along." Amp It Up, Frank, you write a lot about building culture and I think you had some issues at Snowflake when you got there. Its none other than CEO Frank Slootman, and here are 10 things about the guy behind the current Snowflake craze. Most people just preside over culture. Look, I'm not a certain type of CEO. They're very far removed from the drive train. In May 2019, Frank Slootman, the retired former CEO of ServiceNow, joined Snowflake as its CEO and Michael Scarpelli, the former CFO of ServiceNow joined the company as CFO. Your mission is you're pursuing an end state or at least the closest thing to what you can envision, to what you want to realize as a couple. In Amp It Up, you're pretty open about the struggles the company faced in its business and leadership. The. Now, most organizations are incredibly in up still in terms of their data promise. Every week there was a new bid. So I've been very different from early days of Data Domain, later days of Data Domain, early days of ServiceNow. He spends more time than is perhaps wise with his eyes fixed on a screen either reading history books, keeping up with international news, or playing the latest releases on the Steam platform, which serve as the subject matter for much of his writing output. And people that know the Dutch, and you seem to know to Dutch people, it's, fairly recognizable what the Dutch attributes are that are at play here. I mean, we have bumper stickers and people would at trade shows would stick them on tape libraries. Not exactly like a year and a half, he'd been there for seven years. And there were many, many players in that segment, by the way. Those are the people that are right there, where the people that bring home the bacon, there when the shit hits the fan. That's really what you want to preserve rather than layers and layers and layers and channels of communication. Frank Slootman, Chairman and CEO of Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), presided over the largest software IPO in the NYSEs history, but it wasnt his first rodeo. You really need to, look at yourself as an asset that can be applied in many, many different ways. I mean, for example, I remember when we first, got involved with Geico and Todd Combs, the CEO, said, "Look, I don't need any more lectures from you guys on architectural prowess and all this sort of thing." They're high anxiety, they're entrepreneurs, they're CEO, and sort of getting a very unvarnished view, inside view from a fellow traveler. Bunkers is basically a silo that's incredibly hard to access. Frank Slootman is the CEO of Snowflake, a cloud-based database firm he joined in 2019 and took public in September 2020 in a blockbuster IPO. Basically, we had to solve our enormous problems that we have while the company was doubling in size, more than doubling its size every year. After joining almost at the start in 2003, Slootman helped. Check out the subtleties of his Wikipedia below. Much like how he runs his companies, Slootman is always direct in his speeches. I mean, I still remember that we were in countries like France, where we had like a $10-million business, which was very small. But you mentioned this earlier, it isn't really what happened. In other words, swarm to it instead of distance yourself from it. It was an application development and runtime platform to run on both Unix and OSU and Windows all at the same time. We're not trying to find fault with people or who did what to whom. The question is though, for investors, for others, for employees, how do you keep momentum going now as a public company and how does the future look for Snowflake? Company still around, by the way. An in-house cafeteria replaced the usual catered lunch offerings, and sales representatives no longer had free reins on unexplained spending. People were looking at my credentials. Over the past 20 years, as CEO of Data Domain and then ServiceNow and now Snowflake, Frank Slootman has generated extraordinary growth and success for each company and established himself as one of the world's top CEOs. And by the way, the inverse of that is what are you not good at? Mr. Slootman served as CEO and President of ServiceNow from 2011 to 2017, taking the organization from around $100M in revenue, through an IPO, to $1.4B. Well, you think you're just going to turn it off? Those are just markets, but culture is how you get up in the morning and how you prosecute your day, so it is a huge deal. Yeah, there's no doubt. Data has no opinion. That was career death for people, so it was just the least flattering place in the entire IT operation was backup and recovery based on tape, very logistically, intense. He said, "Because you guys are indicting everything I've done." Let's go." Todays companies all want to achieve exponential growth and according to Frank Slootman, author of a new book for business leaders, every organization has the potential to scale to massive heights. Learned an awful lot in that period of time. Yeah, yeah. I'm on the phone with customers every day. And that's exactly what we did. But what is so great about it is, I mean, the starts are incredibly exciting and that takes enormous amount of drilling to become really good at starts because it's a tightly, tightly coordinated process and you have to become good at it. But you dont achieve a $1.8 billion net worth by being a spendthrift. When I was at Data Domain, hell, we were 15 people when I joined there. And when you let it happen, you get feed-ups. And Mike, he takes on the end entire spectrum of controls and administration. So, getting an internship in the US in those days was a really big deal and it really didn't matter to me, where it was, what company it was, I just wanted to have the exposure to what is that like. All Rights Reserved. Steve Jobs didnt even own 1% of Appleeven though he had millions worth in shares. The interesting thing about data domain was it was very, very slow going. It takes a ton of work to maintain intense focus on the mission, so that's the weaponizing. You could eject the tape from a tape drive and you could ship it off site. Now, you can manage LNG freight risk with ICE LNG freight futures contracts, which join our global natural gas complex. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical. This is very much a country that believes things that other countries don't believe. It wasn't, and the company wasn't failing financially on its growth objectives. The New York stock exchange sits at the Southern tip of Manhattan on the corner of Wall and Broad Streets. So, we were just picking over use cases here and there to sort of stay alive in the early days. And everybody was like, "Who's Data Domain? Can you explain how you overcame both to lead the company through its 2012 IPO? When I in Ohio, I joined copy ware in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and I had not even been there a few month and they acquired a sizable company in Holland, a company called Uniface. Because, if I can't explain it, then I can't predict it. 5. And of course, the appetite is insatiable for both technology and people that know how to make this future happen. It has certainly worked well for himself, for the companies hes worked under, the many investors that have poured money in his name, and so forth. And that is our culture. They always have a twinkle in their eye and they're going to do this, they're going to do that. That's not a healthy dynamic. IBA took over the auction in 2015 and we moved it to an electronic auction and on the web ICE platform, so it's fully audited to proper electronic liquidity window of market. The Frank Lloyd Wright (R) Suite will be accepting bookings from January 24, 2023, through March 31, 2024. . I can't do every speaking engagement," et cetera. And also in sailing, you're always looking for new adventures, different platforms and things of that sort to sort of keep it interesting, continual learning experience and so on, rather than rinse and repeat. Because now you're buying somebody else's culture. Open main menu Close main menu Home About Us Contact Us States Advanced Search So in other words, I did not accept the Snowflake role until, Mike said, "I'm coming along.". In other words, they kind of let it happen. Here's your host, Josh King of Intercontinental Exchange. And how that allowed him to grow Snowflake into the biggest software IPO ever, and how. That's NYSE ticker symbol S-N-O-W or snow who, like the immigrant inhabitants of New Amsterdam more than two centuries ago, has proven himself a master entrepreneur and visionary leader, able to take a great idea and scale it massively, and then apply the same playbook again and again. And the product was insanely fast, completely automated. People who have seen sort of the ticker symbol of Snowflake pass their eyes on CNBC and see how its companies perform and say like, "What is that company with the name after falling snow from the sky?" You can only sail so much, [crosstalk 00:31:19]. Each week, we feature stories of those who hatch plans, create jobs and harness the engine of capitalism, right here, right now at the NYSE and at ICE's exchanges and clearing houses around the world. By the way, our two largest competitors were both bidding for the company at the same time. It's a small country, obviously, which is why they sort of veer far and wide. Information contained in this podcast was obtained in part from publicly available sources, and not independently verified. We want to bring about something in the world of computing that has never existed before and we are consumed by our mission. And we feel the consequences of our actions every minute of the day. It becomes the beating heart of a modern enterprise. Slootman applies this philosophy in the workplace as well. So, this is not data warehousing, it's just one use case. Slootman knows exactly what hes doing. Frank has been involved in the business programming market for over 25 years as a business visionary and chief. Slootman is going to take Snowflake for quite the ride, and you have to decide whether youre getting in his car or not. And by the way, data is going to, some people have referred to it as a new currency to new oil, whatever you want to call it, but. ICE is the first exchange to list LNG freight futures contracts underpinned by the price assessments of spark commodities. Snowflake chairman and CEO Frank Slootman on leadership and the war against mediocrity February 23, 2022 "Leading for unprecedented growth means declaring war on mediocrity, breaking the status quo, and making conflicted choices daily, all with a relentless focus on the mission," says Frank Slootman , chairman and CEO of Snowflake, one of . All these things eventually came together. I hate that. Those are all disciplines that leverage where they are, right at the headwaters off the entire European continent. Obviously, that industry had moved on to all kinds of different disk space technologies. No, I didn't. Yeah. So, we're going to be in the middle of that. Slootmans style of leadership is not gentle at all. Not much is known about Slootmans personal life, but we do know that hes fairly young for the success hes achieved in his lifetime. His company's listing here at the NYC in September 2020 was the largest software IPO in the history of the US capital markets. You want to be the playmaker and the people that they're going to pass the ball to when we have two seconds left in the quarter, that kind of thing. The company is a fintech firm that helps companies automate their deployments with unique software solutions for business. We just never backed off of it. And it worked like that for about a hundred years. Right? But as I got into retirement, the whole experience of retirement changes in the beginning, it's very euphoric, right? Frank Slootman added: " I'm excited to advise Blackstone. Tell me about sailing, first of all. I mean, the only thing that energizes people and teams and organizations and companies as a whole is the mission. I hate to break it to the audience, but that is the way that it is. Bachelor of Science, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Master of Science, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. While that is probably not, my temperament is not terribly well-suited for those types of jobs. And he always talked about Snowflake because it was a very exciting company to him and I didn't know that much about it, but enough to have a conversation. And essentially, he defends. People that the company really, really runs on. Right. And if you've got a comment or a question if you'd like one of our experts to tackle on a future show, email us at. And obviously that is not the best way to go about things because that's just one man's opinion against another, right? So, we came out there and we said, "Look, no, we're not just going to sell a product here. I mean, you're not going to get excited, "Well, we want to grow 100% this year." The Last Of Us offers up its best episode yet, though this one diverges from the source material much more than the previous two. I only think about now and what I'm doing today. Never seen the inside of an office or anything. You hit a mark, you have to do two 360s. The consequences of your action are like right there. If you like what you heard, please rate us on iTunes, so other folks know where to find us. Frank Slootman (born 1958) is a billionaire businessman, and the chairman and CEO at Snowflake Inc., a cloud data-warehousing company. Because of his much sought-after expertise, Slootman gets paid a decent sum of money. Investors know this about us. Before that, he spent his life in Netherlands, where he was also born. Good sales people have a track record. Sometimes that is hard for American audiences. BUILDINGS. We're always picking at things that could be better. And you need to have the flexibility of mind to really deploy yourself. Frank Slootman is the CEO of Snowflake, a cloud-based database firm he joined in 2019 and took public in September 2020 in a blockbuster IPO. And in other words, what problems can I solve very quickly versus what is going to take longer to solve. I mean, if you look historically at what platforms like ours have done, there is no relationship to the past with what Snowflake is doing now. See what you can do with it" to data driving operations directly, right? So, I really lift that cross and the chasm dynamic. It's just our nature to talk about problems." I often refer to those people as passengers and then, they're the drivers. And are there any particular secrets to building a consensus around the idea of change? At the same time, we've never had a data Cloud in the history of computing because data was just fragmented and proliferated into silos and what we call bunkers. There are many questions left unanswered about the months leading up to Snowflake going public. It's not just a scale. Frank Lloyd Wright designed some 14 buildings for Japan: an embassy, a school, two hotels and a temporary hotel annex, a commercial-residential complex, a theater, an official residence for the prime minister and six private residences. It's really every leader in the organization needs to internalize and then, want to act on it. Slootman recently spoke at the CNBC. Slootman said he understands people might be eager to more freely leave their homes once long-standing public health restrictions are eased, potentially wanting to return to pre-pandemic routines . Well, that's another thing I don't think about that. Another Dutch trend setter with the Winfrey title is Frank Slootman, the chairman and CEO of Snowflake. CEO Frank Slootman made $287,990 in salary in 2019. I was a huge fan coming here. You come with aptitude. SAN FRANCISCO, March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Instacart, the leading online grocery platform in North America, today announced that Frank Slootman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of . That's when you're at risk. I mean, to this day, with all the other things that we've done, I still treasured that experience greatly and it's still a very large business to this day. And I look at what the situation requires of me, not what I want to bring to it per se, based on my own background. They just have such a hard time doing it because that's who they are, that's what they live for. What's the silver bullet? Somebody who I had known for many, many years, so at Sutter Hill Mike Speiser. The ecommerce industry is one of the fastest-growing sectors, and at the moment, it features several players. Snowflake, the cloud-based data-warehousing company, has been on fire in 2020, with veteran tech CEO Frank Slootman at the center of its success. And the term BI had not even been invented back then. Everything in our world starts with technology, starts with architecture, okay? So, one of the things that, that our founders did really, really well and it's a very important lesson here for anybody that's watching Snowflake and trying to understand is that they took a clean sheet of paper. What kind of people fail here and why?" There's no doubt that the successes that we have had, our function of the combination of our respective orientations in how we come at the world. But I was now really primed at that point, in terms of, I knew a lot more, about what it was like to be in the US. CEO Frank Slootman told CNBC in January that after the Covid-19 outbreak forced people to work from home, it became clear that the old way of working wasn't going to return. That's actually another important bit of learning with a lot of people take on CEO roles and they keep doing their last job because that's familiar to them and they love it and they keep doing it. Between 2011 and 2017, Slootman was Chairman and CEO of ServiceNow - one of the world's leading SaaS . Architecturally, just damn near perfect, so. Our European futures operation is based in London, England, and a big part of that operation is futures trading for Dutch Natural Gas at the Title Transfer Facility or TTF, virtual trading point in Amsterdam. So, it's the story, what goes around, comes around, as I said at the beginning. All of which is presented solely for informational and educational purposes. The biggest guess is that Frank Slootman simply had the track record for having previously taken data storage companies successfully out of trouble and into the future. It's been extremely successful since we took over. 951 Chicago Ave., Oak Park, IL 60302. And, likewise, when I go to Holland and I meet Dutch customers there, they kind of look at me with a smirk, like, "Yeah, I can tell you're Dutch. You speak the language, like we do, but there is something different about you." And I say, "Stop putting labels on yourself. As I said, what comes around, goes around. Slootman previously served as CEO for Data Domain and for ServiceNow, which he both took public. In the Dutchman Frank Slootman, a non-coddling, no-nonsense executive who had taken Data Domain public before selling it to EMC, Leone saw "a match made .
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