Bob Muglia is a software executive who's well known as the CEO that took Snowflake from a promising application to today's leading data cloud company. In this episode, Bob chats with Mingsheng about his journey at Snowflake, what he did to get to product market fit, the migration from on-prem to cloud data solutions, and a rising focus on cost efficiency.

00:00 Introducing Bob Muglia, former CEO of Snowflake
00:38 War stories along the Snowflake journey 
05:56 Getting the Snowflake consumption model right
09:01 Snowflake's journey toward PMF (Product Market Fit)
12:28 Advice for early-stage CEOs
16:44 On-prem vs.Data Cloud: ROI
18:55 Emerging focus on cost efficiency
24:33 On-prem vs. Data Cloud: data processing
32:37 Data modeling challenges
36:36 Knowledge graph and business learning 
47:57 Exciting times in the modern data stack 
51:35 Exploring the complexity of the modern data stack

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