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(BNS) How Snowflake Wrote The GTM Playbook

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Make It Snow is Snowflake’s go-to-market playbook, told by longtime CRO Chris Degnan and CMO Denise Persson. The central idea: sales and marketing must operate as “one brain in two bodies.” The takeaways are practical and candid: embed with customers sooner than feels comfortable, pick a clear foil, design programs you can rerun, centralize data so sales and marketing act from one truth, and treat culture as GTM infrastructure. If you’re a founder, CRO, CMO, or operator trying to go from zero to billions without losing the plot, Make It Snow is a field manual for aligning people, narrative, and pipeline at every stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.8

Welcome to another bonus episode of the Tech Brew Ride Home.

0:39.5

I'm your host, as always Brian McCullough.

0:41.6

We are going to talk about a really interesting book today,

0:44.1

but we're also going to talk about a really interesting company.

0:47.1

Everybody knows Snowflake, but we're going to talk to the authors of a new book called

0:51.6

Make It Snow from Zero to Billions, How Snowflake Scaled Its Go-to-Market Organization. We have the authors of a new book called Make It Snow from Zero to Billions, How Snowflake Scaled

0:54.7

Its Go-to-Market Organization. We have the authors here, Denise Pearson, and Chris DeGman.

1:01.7

Hey, Brian. Thanks for having us. Thanks for having us. This is a book about sort of the

1:08.6

marketing and revenue relationship, the CRO and CMO relationship. So who's

1:13.7

the CRO? Who's the CMO? I'm the CMO. And I am the X CRO. All right. So let's start with

1:22.2

your backgrounds because that's going to weave into the story of this book and how it came about.

1:26.5

So let's start with you, Denise.

1:29.1

Before Snowflake or getting into Snowflake, just briefly tell me about your career.

1:34.1

I've been in tech since 1993.

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