SaaStr 825: How the AI Era Has Directly Impacted Marketing and Sales with Snowflake's CMO and Founding CRO
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What is the background of Snowflake’s CMO and founding CRO and why does their experience matter?
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We are live. Hello, everyone. We're very excited about this next session. It is how the AI era has directly impacted marketing and sales with Snowflake. It's been a great day for Snowflake so far.
How does AI reshape company culture and what practices drive AI success at Snowflake?
This will be a very timely session. So so excited to have Chris and Denise here with us today. For those who maybe don't know our presenters, Chris was employee number 13 and the very first sales. Higher at Snowflake. He recently retired as CRO because he now advises Snowflake and is on the board for about eight or so companies, many of them AI startups, which he can talk about too. And after taking three other startups public, wow, Denise joined Snowflake as employee number one twenty back in twenty sixteen. And she is still actively the CMO. She's also spoken at Sasha before. So we're so great to have her back in the mix and bring Chris so they could do a bit of sales and marketing. Together they have solidified the data cloud market category, which has resulted in many great things for Snowflake, including the largest software IPO in the history of Wall Street.
In twenty twenty. Denise and Chris are going to cover a lot. They've got a lot of great learnings they're going to share today about getting into the IPO with sales and marketing and also how AI has impacted all that. So a lot of great learnings they're going to cover today. But for things they don't cover, for things you want to know more on, they just released Naked Snow. So this is the book to read, recommended to all of you here today. It captures all the lessons, the near misses and stories in the book. It's available. everywhere, but we're again we're super grateful to have them here today to do a deep dive on how this has impacted in the AI area and the go-to-market lessons you can apply. So with that, Chris and Denise, thanks for joining us.
Joining us.
Super excited to be here with the Sester community today. It's always fun to be on the event.
And likewise, thanks for having us.
Let's jump into it. You've got over 10,000 customers. So let's kick off with setting the tone for the day. How do you succeed with so many customers and with AI in the enterprise?
No, I think we wanted to start just by talking what are the things we're seeing out there in terms of which customers are succeeding with AI, you know, how are they succeeding?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the background of Snowflake’s CMO and founding CRO and why does their experience matter?
0:01–2:24
2
How does AI reshape company culture and what practices drive AI success at Snowflake?
2:24–7:02
3
What is Snowflake’s AI strategy and how do they ensure data security for AI workloads?
7:02–9:55
4
Which AI use‑cases are Snowflake’s marketing team using daily and what results have they seen?
9:55–18:54
5
How are AI agents and tools improving sales processes and pipeline forecasting at Snowflake?
18:54–22:17
6
What governance and security measures does Snowflake apply when deploying AI across the enterprise?
22:17–25:19
7
How has the AI era changed hiring priorities for sales and marketing talent at Snowflake?
25:19–28:08
8
What final takeaways and resources does Snowflake recommend for AI‑first B2B leaders?
28:08–39:59
Speakers
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