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☆ Snowflake sees product revenue above estimates on AI-driven demand
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 29 (Reuters) - Snowflake (SNOW.N) forecast quarterly product revenue above estimates on Wednesday, as increasing adoption of artificial intelligence boosted demand for its data cloud offerings. Snowflake expects product revenue for the fourth quarter to be in the range of $716 million to $721 million, which is above analysts' average estimate of $700.3 million, according to data from LSEG. For the third quarter, the company's revenue rose 32% to $734.2 million, above estimates of $713.1 million. Product revenue, which is derived from the consumption of compute, storage, and data transfer resources, was above estimates at $698.5 million for the quarter ended Oct. 31. The company also raised its product revenue forecast for 2024 to $2.65 billion from $2.60 billion.

Persons: Brendan McDermid, Frank Slootman, Arsheeya, Maju Samuel Organizations: Snowflake Inc, New York Stock Exchange, REUTERS, LSEG, Gartner, Thomson Locations: New York, U.S, Bozeman , Montana, Bengaluru

☆ Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman: Consumption models are incredibly equitable to customers
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman: Consumption models are incredibly equitable to customersSnowflake CEO Frank Slootman joins 'Mad Money' host Jim Cramer fresh off of earnings to talk large language models, revenue guidance, customer trends and more.

Persons: Snowflake, Frank Slootman, Jim Cramer Organizations: Snowflake

☆ Cramer's Lightning Round: Veeva is a buy
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

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☆ Snowflake CEO says people will soon not be able to remember a world without AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Frank Slootman, CEO of data storage and analytics company Snowflake , likened artificial intelligence to search engines, saying that soon many may not remember a world without it. "I've lived long enough that I remember what the world was like before search ... search changed everything," Slootman said. "People will not be able to remember a world before AI pretty soon because it becomes so integral to their life experience." However, he also noted that the hype around generative AI doesn't mean much to big data companies. We've been infatuated with using generative AI for "planning our next trip to Yellowstone and summarizing 'The Great Gatsby' — but "that's not what enterprises do," he said.

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☆ Instacart clarifies its Snowflake payments in updated IPO prospectus after clash with Databricks
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Ari Levy | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Instacart filed an updated IPO prospectus Monday and clarified how its contract works with data storage and analytics company Snowflake , after the initial filing appeared to show a dramatic decline in spending on Snowflake's technology. The apparent slippage led to confusion and spurred employees at rival Databricks to suggest online that it was picking up that business. "These cash payments, including the payments we made in 2022, generally represent prepayments for future services which, in many cases, span multiple fiscal periods," Instacart wrote. For both 2021 and 2022, Instacart said it incurred operating expenses tied to the cloud technology of $28 million. Instacart isn't required to disclose its relationship with Databricks, but both companies published recent posts about the implementation on their websites.

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☆ Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman: AI will become a million times what 'search' is
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSnowflake CEO Frank Slootman: AI will become a million times what 'search' isSnowflake Chairman and CEO Frank Slootman joins 'Mad Money' host Jim Cramer to talk the AI hype cycle, quarterly earnings and more.

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☆ Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman: We won't tolerate approximate answers in AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman: We won't tolerate approximate answers in AISnowflake Chairman and CEO Frank Slootman joins 'Mad Money' host Jim Cramer to talk the AI hype cycle, quarterly earnings and more.

Persons: Snowflake, Frank Slootman, Jim Cramer

☆ Jim Cramer says this enterprise software stock has more room to run on AI craze
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A banner for Snowflake Inc. is displayed at the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate the company's initial public offering, Sept. 16, 2020. Snowflake (SNOW) rose more than 3% Friday after DA Davidson initiated research coverage of the stock with a buy rating. If you like this story, sign up for Jim Cramer's Top 10 Morning Thoughts on the Market email newsletter for free. CNBC's Jim Cramer agrees that Snowflake is poised to benefit from the craze, citing the company's strong leadership from CEO Frank Slootman and its "great business model" on integrating generative AI into its products. They're really making a comeback," Jim said, citing upbeat earnings from the sector, including a strong quarter and rosy guidance from Salesforce (CRM), which is a holding in the CNBC Investing Club's portfolio.

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☆ Instacart's IPO filing sparked an online spat between cloud rivals Snowflake and Databricks
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Ari Levy | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

One of Instacart's board members is Frank Slootman, the CEO of Snowflake , a publicly traded company that helps businesses store and manage hefty workloads in the cloud. Slootman joined Instacart's board in 2021 and, because of that relationship, the company has to disclose its business ties to Snowflake. In May, the company published a blog post titled "How Instacart Ads Modularized Data Pipelines With Lakehouse Architecture and Spark." The post, which described software underpinning Instacart's ads infrastructure, included discussion of a migration to Databricks' Lakehouse technology and the cost savings that followed. Representatives from Instacart, Snowflake and Databricks declined to to comment.

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The development comes days after SoftBank Group-backed (9984.T) chip designer Arm Holdings made public its IPO filing. Instacart said its revenue had surged to $1.48 billion in the six months ended June 30, compared with $1.13 billion in the same period last year. Net income was $242 million during the six-month period, compared to a $74 million loss a year earlier, Instacart said. Customers can order through the Instacart app, and an Instacart "shopper" delivers the product in as little as 30 minutes. Unlike in an IPO, no shares are sold in advance in a direct listing and investors can sell their shares directly to the public.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Mark Schwartz, Mike Bellin, Instacart, Goldman Sachs, Fidji Simo, Frank Slootman, Niket, Savyata Mishra, Shilpi Majumdar, Shinjini, Maju Samuel Organizations: REUTERS, SoftBank, Arm Holdings, PricewaterhouseCoopers U.S, San, underwriters, Nasdaq, Facebook, Canada, CVS, Reuters, Thomson Locations: San Francisco, United States, Snowflake, Bengaluru

☆ Instacart files to go public on Nasdaq to try and unfreeze tech IPO market
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Instacart, the grocery delivery company that slashed its valuation during last year's market slide, filed its paperwork to go public on Friday in what's poised to be the first significant venture-backed tech IPO since December 2021. In May, Instacart said it was leaning into the generative AI boom with Ask Instacart, a search tool that aims to answer customers' grocery shopping questions. Instacart will try and crack open the IPO market, which has been mostly closed since late 2021. In March of last year, Instacart slashed its valuation to $24 billion from $39 billion as public stocks sank. Apoorva Mehta, Instacart's founder and executive chairman, plans to transition off the board after the company's public market debut, according to a 2022 release.

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☆ Snowflake CEO: AI is not going to be cheap, there needs to be a business model associated with it
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSnowflake CEO: AI is not going to be cheap, there needs to be a business model associated with itFrank Slootman, Snowflake CEO, joins 'Closing Bell Overtime' to talk the companies improved spending, the economics around AI and more.

Persons: Frank Slootman Locations: Snowflake

☆ Snowflake beats quarterly estimates on strong demand for data management services
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Shares of the company rose more than 3% in trading after the bell. The Bozeman, Montana-based company's revenue rose about 36% to $674 million for the quarter ended July 31, above analysts' average estimate of $662.2 million, according to Refinitiv data. Excluding items, the second-quarter adjusted profit per share was 22 cents, compared with analysts' average estimate of 10 cents. Snowflake's second-quarter product revenue rose 37% to $640.2 million, above market estimates of $623 million. The company forecast third-quarter product revenue in the range of $670 million to $675 million, compared with analysts' average estimate of $670.8 million, according to Refinitiv data.

Persons: Brendan McDermid, Frank Slootman, Snowflake, Jaspreet Singh, Krishna Chandra Organizations: Snowflake Inc, New York Stock Exchange, REUTERS, Nvidia, Thomson Locations: New York, U.S, Bozeman , Montana, Bengaluru

☆ Here are 17 stocks Jim Cramer is watching, including Home Depot, Exxon and Intel
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

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☆ Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman says acquiring Neeva will help overcome A.I. 'hallucination bias'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSnowflake CEO Frank Slootman says acquiring Neeva will help overcome A.I. 'hallucination bias'Frank Slootman, Snowflake CEO, joins 'Closing Bell Overtime' to discuss A.I. expansion, the company's Neeva acquisition, and more.

Persons: Frank Slootman, Neeva Locations: Snowflake

"In the old days, in small data computing, you moved data to the computer," Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang told Reuters. "But when you have giant amounts of data like Snowflake does, and the pile of proprietary data ... data that's so valuable to a company, then you move the compute to the data." In this case, Nvidia is taking a "fairly engineering intensive" move of embedding its NeMo platform for training and running generative AI models into the Snowflake Data Cloud, said Huang. "We sell more chips, and we have an operating system for AI called Nvidia AI Enterprise. Nvidia charges customers for the use of its Nvidia AI Enterprise software.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Jensen Huang, Huang, ChatGPT, Frank Slootman, Slootman, Jane Lanhee Lee, Nick Zieminski Organizations: NVIDIA, REUTERS, Nvidia, Reuters, Enterprise, Thomson Locations: OAKLAND , California, Snowflake

☆ 10 Things in Tech: Google abandons smart glasses, lawsuits against real estate agents, and Snowflake CEO denies rumors of stepping down
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Moving forward, we'll be bringing you our top tech stories in our flagship newsletter, Insider Today. What do you want to see in Insider Today? The new tech bro is also becoming louder and brasher — they're trying to make being a techie cool. My colleague Grace Kay breaks down the "peak tech bro" persona and dives into its transformation over time. It currently has four main models: Model 3, Model Y, Model S, and Model X.

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☆ Insiders keep saying that Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman could soon step down but Slootman says he's not leaving
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Ellen Thomas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Frank Slootman became CEO of data cloud company Snowflake in April 2019. Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman tells Insider that ongoing rumors that he could soon step down are completely untrue. You are regurgitating competitive FUD," Slootman told us in his famously direct, no-nonsense style. "Frank Slootman is not leaving his position as Chairman and CEO of Snowflake," a spokesperson for the company told Insider. Slootman joined Snowflake as CEO in April 2019, ahead of its IPO in September 2020.

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☆ Cramer's Lightning Round: Hilton is a keeper
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

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☆ Despite near-term growth concerns, Wall Street analysts view this cloud stock as a long-term A.I. winner
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Snowflake should emerge as a long-term artificial intelligence winner despite a host of near-term snowstorms, Wall Street analysts think. The cloud stock dropped more than 16% last Thursday after the company shared product revenue guidance that fell short of consensus expectations and results that indicated slowing growth. Even with these headwinds, many analysts remain positive on Snowflake's long-term trajectory, viewing an acquisition and the transition to the cloud as two catalysts for the stock. Deutsche Bank's Brad Zelnick said in a recent note that AI, among other developments, should drive customer stickiness and improved use cases. A murky future Not everyone seems optimistic about Snowflake's AI potential, however.

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☆ Despite poor guidance, Snowflake CEO says he is optimistic about the future
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-24 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

After an earnings report that saw a beat on revenue but poor guidance, CEO of data cloud company Snowflake Frank Slootman was firm in his optimism about the company's future. "If you were to zoom out a little bit and say, 'let me take a five-year view of the growth here,' it is tremendous," Slootman told CNBC's Jim Cramer. Snowflake reported $624 million in fiscal first-quarter revenue on Wednesday, showing 48% growth year over year, and comfortably topped the consensus Refinitiv estimate of $608 million. The company CEO went so far as to say Snowflake is rapidly becoming an AI company as well as a data company. Snowflake also announced Wednesday that it was acquiring search startup Neeva, saying in a blog post that it will "infuse and leverage" the company's AI-equipped search products.

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☆ Cramer's Lightning Round: I am not a believer in Coinbase
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

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☆ Snowflake CEO on customer spending, weak guidance, A.I. and the company's outlook
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSnowflake CEO on customer spending, weak guidance, A.I. and the company's outlookFrank Slootman, Snowflake CEO, joins 'Closing Bell: Overtime' to discuss the company as shares slump on weak guidance following Wednesday's earnings report.

☆ The tech IPO market collapsed in 2022, and next year doesn't look much better
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Ari Levy | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

The Stockholm-based company raised financing at a $6.7 billion valuation this year, an 85% discount to its prior valuation of $46 billion. Butler doesn't expect the IPO market to get appreciably better in 2023. Butler also thinks that Silicon Valley has to adapt to a shift away from the growth-first mindset before the IPO market picks up again. Butler said he expects this "cultural reset" to take a couple more quarters and said, "that makes me remain pessimistic on the IPO market." Databricks raised $1.6 billion at a $38 billion valuation in August of 2021, near the market's peak.

☆ Jim Cramer's top 10 things to watch in the market Thursday: Cooler inflation, Salesforce co-CEO exit
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Club holding Salesforce (CRM) saw the departure of co-CEO Bret Taylor, leaving co-founder Marc Benioff as sole CEO, again. Five Below (FIVE) blowout quarter and stock jumps more than 9% in the premarket; in keeping with the discounter retailers. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio. If Jim has talked about a stock on CNBC TV, he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade.

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