Snowflake’s transition from storing data to shipping with it
From Equity by TechCrunch, Rebecca Bellan, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, Sean O'Kane, Theresa Loconsolo
April 8, 2026 · 27 min
About this episode
Rebecca Bellan interviews Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy about the company's shift from data storage to acting on data through AI.
Snowflake is betting that the future of AI isn’t just analyzing data, it’s acting on it. That means a shift away from chatbots and toward autonomous agents that can actually get work done. And Snowflake is reorganizing fast to keep up, from shipping hundreds of AI features to restructuring teams along the way.On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy to unpack the company’s transformation and what it signals about where AI is headed next. Listen to the full episode to hear: Why Ramaswamy believes the chatbot era is ending and the agentic era is beginning. How Snowflake is evolving from a data warehouse into an AI and applications platform. What “shipping with your data” actually looks like in practice. Why the company is making big internal changes to support its AI push. Subscribe to Equity on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:17 Snowflake’s AI shift and agentic future 01:45 Why 2026 marks the end of chatbots 04:09 Cortex Code, Snowflake Intelligence, and new products 06:09 Who benefits…
People in this episode
Host: Rebecca Bellan
Guest: Sridhar Ramaswamy
Topics covered
- AI
- data storage
- autonomous agents
- Snowflake
- technology transformation
Keywords
- chatbots
- AI features
- data warehouse
- applications platform
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Cortex Code, Snowflake Intelligence, Snowflake
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