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Founding Partner @Wing_VC. Early-stage / long-term investor in @SnowflakeDB, @Gong_io, @Pinecone and other enablers of the AI First transformation of business
Sep 16, 2020 10 tweets 3 min read
Shock and awe! @SnowflakeDB is public. I met the founders Benoit, Thierry and Marcin in Jan 2013, invested in the seed financing soon after, and have invested in every financing since. Things weren’t always so obvious, as this post explains. wing.vc/content/snowfl…

A thread 👇👇 1/ Relational is dead

That was fashionable thinking in 2013. Remember Hadoop? Snowflake believed the cloud could unleash relational technology while preserving its benefits, such as the legions of analysts and DBA’s already trained in it – a large and ready market.