The End of Stale AI Data with Snow Leopard | Episode #99
Great Things with Great Tech Podcast
Anthony Spiteri
5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
We all talk about #AI, but what good is it if your models are powered by stale, outdated data?In Episode 99 of Great Things with Great Tech, Deepti Srivastava, founder and CEO of Snow Leopard, and former founding PM of Google Spanner, calls out the broken state of enterprise AI. With decades of experience in distributed systems and data infrastructure, Deepti unveils how Snow Leopard is redefining how AI applications are built, by tapping into live, real-time data from SQL and APIs without the need for ETL or pipelines.Instead of relying on static snapshots or disconnected data lakes, Snow Leopard’s #agentic platform queries native sources like PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and Salesforce on-demand, empowering AI to live directly in the critical decision path.In This Episode, We Cover:
- Deepti’s journey from building Spanner at Google to founding Snow Leopard AI.
- Why most enterprise AI fails due to reliance on stale data and outdated pipelines.
- How Snow Leopard federates live data across SQL and APIs with zero ETL.
- The limitations of vector databases in structured, real-time business use cases.
- Why putting AI in the critical path of business decisions unlocks real value.
Snow Leopard is a U.S.-based technology company founded in 2023 by and is Headquartered in San Francisco, CaliforniaSnow Leopard specializes in building a platform that enables the development of production-ready AI applications by leveraging live business data. The company's approach focuses on real-time data retrieval directly from sources like SQL databases and APIs, eliminating the need for traditional ETL processes and data pipelines. This innovation allows for more accurate and timely AI-driven business decision.PODCAST LINKSGreat Things with Great Tech Podcast: https://gtwgt.comGTwGT Playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GTwGTPodcastListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Y1Fgl4DgGpFd5Z4dHulVXListen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/great-things-with-great-tech-podcast/id1519439787EPISODE LINKSSnow Leopard Web: https://www.snowleopard.ai/Deepti Srivastava on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/thedeepti/Snow Leopard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/snow-leopard-ai/GTwGT LINKSSupport the Channel: https://ko-fi.com/gtwgtBe on #GTwGT: Contact via Twitter/X @GTwGTPodcast or visit https://www.gtwgt.comSubscribe to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GTwGTPodcast?sub_confirmation=1Great Things with Great Tech Podcast Website: https://gtwgt.comSOCIAL LINKSFollow GTwGT on Social Media:Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/GTwGTPodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/GTwGTPodcastTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@GTwGTPodcast🎵 Music by BenSound: https://www.bensound.com☑️ Support the Channel: https://ko-fi.com/gtwgt
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| 0:00.0 | Most enterprise AI is built on stale data and that's a problem. |
| 0:04.4 | While companies brag about LLMs and chatbots, their critical decisions are still powered |
| 0:08.9 | by outdated snapshots and clunky pipelines. |
| 0:11.8 | In this episode of Great Things with Great Tech, we meet Depty Shrivastava who also gave us |
| 0:17.4 | Google Spanner at Google Cloud Platform and now is founder of Snow Leopard AI. |
| 0:23.6 | She's calling out the broken state of Enterprise AI and showing us a new path building real-time |
| 0:29.1 | AI apps using fresh live data from SQL and APIs. |
| 0:34.0 | No ETL, no delays, just answers. |
| 0:37.0 | This is episode 99 of Great Things with Great Tech with Snow Leopard. |
| 0:50.7 | Nepty, welcome to the show. |
| 0:52.2 | This is amazing to have you on and to talk about Snow Leopard, love the name by the way. |
| 0:57.0 | It's kind of amazing. |
| 0:58.0 | We'll get into that a little bit later on in terms of the vision and to the name of the company. |
| 1:03.0 | But before we get into what Snow Leopard does, really interested in your background because |
| 1:08.0 | it's quite fascinating doing the research on you where you've come from and what you've actually been part of in your professional career already. |
| 1:14.4 | It's quite amazing and I'm sure a lot of people who are out there have understood Google Spanner |
| 1:19.6 | and they understand that that's a really big time platform in Google Cloud and you had a hand |
| 1:25.3 | in doing that. |
| 1:25.9 | But before we get to that, give us a little bit of background about yourself, |
| 1:29.5 | where you came from, and, you know, effectively how you came to be in technology. |
| 1:35.3 | Yeah. Thank you so much, Anthony. It's so great to be here. |
| 1:39.4 | And wow, that's quite the intro. |
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