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Just separating out what is real from what is hype, I think is very hard. And I don't think

the AI industry helps itself with things like not talking about hallucination rates or not talking about

what does it take for something to truly be enterprise grade. There's a little bit of a look ma it's so

cool kind of attitude. I think there is a maturity process that is going to happen. Figuring out what is real from what is hype is the biggest challenge that business leaders face today.

That's Shridar Ramoswame, CEO of the cloud storage platform Snowflake.

It's been a wild few years for Snowflake from a record-breaking IPO to a plummeting stock price to a data breach scandal.

Shredar took over as CEO in the heat of the turmoil and has helped steady the ship, in part,

by leaning into AI in a very specific way.

Today, he shares lessons from the company's in-process turnaround,

including insights behind high-profile partnership with OpenAI and Anthropic,

why Snowflake embraced China's deep seek early, and how the buzz

around agentic AI is being broadly misunderstood. There's a lot to cover, so let's get to it.

I'm Bob Safian, and this is Rapid Response.

I'm Bob Safian, I'm here with Shredar Romsfami, CEO of Cloud Data Platform Snowflake.

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