Chris Degnan
speaker
1,056 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 23 May
Chris Degnan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In building Snowflake, that guy was so, he was a founder of the company.
And then he was so involved in the product.
When he didn't know about sales, that's why he brought in John McMahon to be on the board of Snowflake.
Like there's like, he knows where he's good at and he knows where he's not.
And he's super valuable.
So he literally probably the best board member I've seen.
Yeah, Mike's amazing.
Yeah.
John doesn't say a lot in the board meeting.
He spends a lot of time with you, understanding the business and telling you that you're fucking up one-on-one so that you don't go into that board meeting and become an idiot.
He's really good at that.
He's also an elegant gentleman.
I think we both like to hire young up-and-comers to be the first head of sales.
And the problem now, like this is a new problem, the problem now with that is that they've never run an international sales team.
And so I had time, like I was talking to one of the founders about this is I had time to like ramp North America, hire a North American lead, ramp Europe, then ramp APJ.
There is no time.
And so like founders are now paying CROs who have that experience, enormous amounts of money, enormous.
It's crazy because they know that they have to like get market share ASAP globally now.
So people that are peers of mine, that have experience like me, are paid quite handsomely to do that.
Yes.
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