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Quick S-1 Teardown: Snowflake – Matt Turck

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The Snowflake IPO is shaping up to be particularly exciting. Their S-1 shows very impressive metrics across the board, including explosive revenue growth at scale (growing 174% annually to $264.7 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2020), and “land and expand” motion (169% net revenue retention in 2020), making Snowflake one of the fastest growing enterprise companies ever. In addition to the intrinsic merits of the company, this is yet another example showing how gigantic the market is for data technologies (storage, analytics, machine learning, etc.). Snowflake estimates its addressable market at $81B. We’ve had the pleasure of hosting Snowflake’s former CEO, Bob Muglia, a couple of times at our Data Driven NYC event of the years (see videos below), and it’s been really fun to watch the company grow. Here’s our quick take (with Avery Klemmer) on the IPO and company. HIGH LEVEL THOUGHTS Some highlights, big and small: Here are the two chats we had with Bob Muglia at Data D

The Snowflake IPO is shaping up to be particularly exciting. Their S-1 shows very impressive metrics across the board, including explosive revenue growth at scale (growing 174% annually to $264.7 million for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2020), and “land and expand” motion (169% net revenue retention in 2020), making Snowflake one of the fastest growing enterprise companies ever. In addition to the intrinsic merits of the company, this is yet another example showing how gigantic the market is for data technologies (storage, analytics, machine learning, etc.). Snowflake estimates its…

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