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After 15 years running Google's $115 billion ad business, Ramaswamy founded a privacy-first search engine, sold it to Snowflake, and was handed the CEO role at the cloud data company behind the largest software IPO in history.
Sridhar Ramaswamy is the CEO of Snowflake, the cloud data platform company that had the largest software IPO in history at a $33 billion valuation in 2020.
Before Snowflake, Ramaswamy founded Neeva, a privacy-first search engine that was acquired by Snowflake in 2023 for its AI and search technology. Earlier, he spent 15 years at Google, where he served as Senior Vice President overseeing Google's advertising business, one of the most commercially important operations in internet history.
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