Rise of the Data Cloud Quotes

“In the old days of enterprise computing, companies typically paid millions of dollars to license a package of software, millions more to buy the hardware and to get the software installed properly, and then more money for yearly maintenance contracts. Think Oracle. Then came Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS. The customer negotiated a price with the software supplier and paid monthly to use software that ran in the cloud. Think Salesforce. Now, we have the utilization model, with payments based on consumption. You buy credits and use them when you need them. Think Amazon’s AWS and Snowflake. We believe it’s a superior model and that someday most enterprise software will be purchased and delivered this way.”
― Frank Slootman, Rise of the Data Cloud

“Thierry sums up the belief this way: “It’s important to understand what you don’t know yet and what you need to know. The creation comes from imagining what is missing. You need to dream things before you can create things that don’t exist.”
― Frank Slootman, Rise of the Data Cloud