Guest: Frank Slootman, CEO and Chairman of Snowflake and author of Amp It Up
Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman doesn’t recall a time in his childhood where new achievements were celebrated — because, according to his father, putting everything into your work and “leaving it all on the field” was the only choice. “The problem with it,” Frank says, is that “it becomes a ‘never enough’ dynamic, because when is it enough?” To this day, he comes home on Friday night and asks himself, “Did it mater that I was there? ... If I’m just a passenger on the ship, that’s my nightmare.”
In this episode, Frank and Joubin discuss acting with urgency, Shlomo Kramer, negative role models, Elon Musk, Teddy Roosevelt’s “Man in the Arena” speech, aptitudes and weaknesses, ServiceNow, and the life spark of business.
In this episode, we cover:
Links:
#110 Former CRO / Advisor at Notion, Olivia Nottebohm: Grow Fast or Die Slow
#109 Co-founder and CEO, Databricks Ali Ghodsi: The Difference Between Truth and Data
#108 COO Zscaler, Dali Rajic: If You’re Not Always Learning, You’ll Get Wiped Out
#107 Founding CRO at Flexport, Ben Braverman: The Power of Genuine Curiosity
#106 Co-founder & CEO Sweetgreen, Jonathan Neman: The Restaurant Company of the Future
#105 AOL Founder & CEO Revolution, Steve Case: The Rise of the Rest
#104 Co-founder of Intuit, Scott Cook: The Power of Paradigms
#103 Founder & CEO Productboard, Hubert Palan w/ Ilya Fushman: Chasing Perfection
#102 CEO Qualcomm, Cristiano Amon: We’re In a Hurry to Get to the Future
#101 CEO Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian: Competitor-Aware and Customer-Obsessed
#100 Chairman of Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr: Getting Into Trouble with Disruptors
CEO Touch the Top, Erik Weihenmayer: Climbing Everest Blind
Co-founder and CEO G2, Godard Abel: Finding Opportunity in Challenging Times
Founding CRO @HubSpot / Prof @HBS / CoFounder @Stage 2 Capital Mark Roberge: The Science and Psychology of Scaling
CMO Canva, Zach Kitschke: From Employee Number 5 To $40 Billion Valuation
Founder & CEO Freshworks, Girish Mathrubootham: Success Is In the Big Things, Happiness Is In the Small Things
CMO Riot Games, Jason Bunge: Change Is Inevitable, Get Used To It
Co-Founder & CEO Charm Industrial, Peter Reinhardt: “All That Matters Is What the Customers Are Telling You”
Co-Founder & CEO Clari, Andy Byrne: Machine Learning and Human Feeling
Co-Founder & COO Okta, Frederic Kerrest: Zero to IPO
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Commercial Edge: Unleash the Power of People
The emPOWERed Half Hour
Reaching your Goals
Insights@work
Drive With NAR
The Ken Coleman Show
Fifth Dimensional Leadership