#Snowflake

Snowflake was one of the hottest IPOs of 2020, maybe hottest Cloud IPO so farIt now trades at $88B, or 120x its ARR! Growing 115% YoY at $600m+ ARRNow, we
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Forbes has a new profile out on Frank Slootman and it is FULL OF incredible quotes.Sharing my favorites below:https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2021/02/01/the-outsider/?sh=4424c9ab702d “When I was a younger man, I was more tolerant;
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Today, let's talk about lifetime value (LTV). Here's a thread on how to think about it as a business ownerRead on >> 1) What is LTV? It's how much a
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Net dollar retention is a dangerous indicator.Snowflake $SNOW showed in their S-1 filing an amazing 158% retention. The highest ever for an IPO.BUT - we have to understand what it
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Option 1: Click the link below & read about an administrator who gravely misunderstands the “heckler’s veto”Option 2: Continue reading for a story about an autistic student banned from class
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Some of my favorite podcasts I’ve been on are holiday-related ones with my friend/cohost @bobservo, so I thought it’d be nice to do a thread reminiscing.Starting with our podcast for
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Hello! Is there an etsy shop that you're going to shop with this holiday season? Can you share? I bought a very sparkly and lovely ornament to commemorate 2020 from
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Deep dive today with internal IT team @okta about our internal apps, data warehouse and integration stack. As an engineer I built PeopleSoft integration tech in 2000. This area has
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A math thread! There is a beautiful conjecture about the web of normal subgroups inside mapping class groups of finite-type surfaces:https://twitter.com/littmath/status/1353169427848716289 1. Any injective map of a geometric* subgroup H
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Free speech is precious, & like democracy, fragile.Divisive thugs, who spread conspiracy theories, demonise minorities, pretend white people are under attack, & use deliberately inflammatory rhetoric for personal & political
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As someone who normally stays silent on drama concerning the SJWs and "Feminism" I gotta admit that New Age Feminism just utterly destroys everything that true feminists stand for. We
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Hey, I know this pandemic has been tough on a lot of us, and I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but:You’re not being persecuted. And I won’t
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2020 is a year to remember: global pandemic, but also year of the unicorn tech investor. Who were the biggest winners (~$1B+ personal liquidity)? Some guesses below and I'm sure
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#COVID is tearing through my extended Indiana family after their Thanksgiving. Three tested positive, eight have symptoms. Everyone is getting tested.People you know are going to die this winter because
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In a world where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, what does the Middle Class think will happen to it? Because it doesn't even take much imagination
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A trend I'm excited for this year: DataOps & the Analytical Engineer~10 years ago DevOps was born. The role of system admins and developers merged. Infrastructure became self-serveToday the role
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