[艾略特]雪花Slootman：“不担心员工流失”

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Snowflake 董事长 Frank Slootman 于 2022 年 6 月 14 日出席在拉斯维加斯举行的 2022 年 Snowflake 峰会。

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首席执行官 Frank Slootman 的退休导致该公司股价周四暴跌 18%，这是这家数据分析软件供应商自 2020 年在纽约证券交易所上市以来最严重的跌幅。

斯洛特曼的离职是在周三晚间宣布的，作为 Snowflake 季度收益报告的一部分，其中包括令人失望的业绩指引。

瑞穗证券(Mizuho Securities)分析师在一份报告中写道，“随着投资者消化斯洛特曼的辞职”，该股受到重创。斯洛特曼于2019年加入公司，并在次年领导该公司完成了大规模的IPO。

虽然这一消息引起了华尔街的恐慌，但斯洛特曼告诉 CNBC，他并不担心 Snowflake 员工会跟随他离开公司。

“这不是个人崇拜，好吗？”

斯洛特曼说道。

65 岁的 Slootman 接替者是谷歌前广告主管斯里达尔·拉马斯瓦米 (Sridhar Ramaswamy)，后者于 6 月通过该公司以 1.85 亿美元收购 Neeva（Ramaswamy 于 2019 年联合创立的初创公司）加入 Snowflake。

Snowflake 是继 2007 年的 Data Domain 和ServiceNow

之后，Slootman 带领的第三家完成 IPO 流程的企业技术公司

2012 年，雪花标志着他最大的一笔意外之财。

他在 IPO 时控制了该公司约 6% 的股票，截至 2 月 9 日持有 1060 万股，目前价值约 20 亿美元。

此外，斯洛特曼 2023 年的总薪酬为 2370 万美元，几乎全部来自股票和期权奖励。

在加入 Snowflake 之前，Slootman 在ServiceNow

担任了大约六年的首席执行官

。

他告诉 CNBC，自他离职以来，ServiceNow 继续蓬勃发展。

年化收入从 15 亿美元增长到近 100 亿美元。

“我雇佣的一些人仍然在那里——实际上，其中不少，”斯洛特曼说。

“显然，还有新的。”

根据监管文件显示，到 2023 年底，ServiceNow 的员工人数为 23,668 人，而 2011 年 12 月（即斯洛特曼加入几个月后），员工人数为 603 人。

“我们让 ServiceNow 步入正轨。我们对 Snowflake 也做到了这一点，”仍担任董事长的斯洛特曼说。

Taking three companies through big and successful exits is a rare feat in technology, and has gained Slootman plenty of acclaim. But he's also attracted attention for stepping into controversy on issues like the tech industry's focus on diversity. In 2021, as corporate America was wading through the fallout of the George Floyd murder, Slootman noted that diversity shouldn't trump merit. He later apologized.

In his 2022 book "Amp It Up," Slootman offered advice leaders on how to raise standards inside companies, citing Steve Jobs' insistence on greatness at Apple. "Don't let malaise set in," he wrote.

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Founded in 2012, Snowflake built a cloud-based data warehouse for storing and analyzing corporate information. Now the company wants to help clients build artificial intelligence models and applications on top of the data.

Ramaswamy said Snowflake has a clear vision, with the data cloud at the center and apps around it.

"Just delivering on that at scale with speed is what I'm going to do," he said.

The challenge will be to maintain the company's momentum.

Snowflake generates about $3 billion in annualized revenue, growing at about 32% a year, compared with under $200 million before Slootman replaced former Microsoft executive Bob Muglia as CEO in 2019. As it tries to continue its rapid expansion, Snowflake faces competition from Databricks, valued at $43 billion last year in an investment round that included Capital One, which previously backed Snowflake.

After Snowflake bought Neeva, Slootman said he made an effort to get to know Ramaswamy. The company put Ramaswamy in the most critical role at the time, leading its AI efforts. Slootman had a realization.

"Holy s---, this is the opportunity we've been waiting for," he said.

Ramaswamy said he's been spending a lot of time with Slootman. They've traveled together to London and Berlin, along with domestic trips to Arizona and Las Vegas. Ramaswamy said he's held conversations with over 100 clients, including many with Slootman.

Now that he's at the helm, Ramaswamy has to deal with the naysayers.

"It is no doubt concerning to see Mr. Slootman, who has a strong track record and is well regarded by investors, step down after five years in the role," Deutsche Bank analysts wrote in a note on Thursday, though they maintained their buy recommendation on the stock.

But nobody has more at stake in Ramaswamy's success than Slootman, who remains one of the company's biggest investors.

"Snowflake is in an extremely good place, having Sridhar at the helm," he said.

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