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He Built $100B at Google, Then Failed. Now He Runs an $80B+ Company | Snowflake, Sridhar Ramaswamy

Sridhar Ramaswamy has seen both sides of building. At Google, he helped scale one of the most important businesses in the history of the internet. Then he left to build Neeva, a search engine that tried to take on Google itself.

Sridhar Ramaswamyguest
Jun 30, 202617mWatch on YouTube

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EPISODE INFO

Released
June 30, 2026
Duration
17m
Channel
EO Studio
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Sridhar Ramaswamy has seen both sides of building. At Google, he helped scale one of the most important businesses in the history of the internet. Then he left to build Neeva, a search engine that tried to take on Google itself. Neeva did not become the company he hoped it would be. But for Sridhar, that failure was not the end of the story. The team, lessons, and conviction from Neeva eventually became part of his next chapter at Snowflake, where he now leads the company into the AI era. In this conversation, Sridhar shares what he learned from Google, why every startup is an act of belief, what it really means to build a 10x product, and why founders have to remember that they are more than their failures. Topics: 00:00 You Are More Than Your Failures 01:48 Find Work That Makes Time Stand Still 03:14 Reinventing Himself as a Software Engineer 05:03 3 Leadership Principles for the AI Era 06:08 Why Great Leaders Stay Close to the Product 07:45 Hiring People Who Can Adapt 09:23 From Google’s $100B Plan to Founder Failure 10:36 When Mobile Almost Broke Google’s Business 11:04 Why He Left Google to Build Neeva 11:33 Why Neeva Failed and What I Learned 13:34 How to Keep Building After Failure 15:08 You Are More Than Your Successes, Too #snowflake #founder #lesson EO stands for Entrepreneurship & Opportunities. We tell stories from the people building what’s next. Subscribe for more conversations with founders, builders, and technology leaders. EO stands for Entrepreneur& Opportunities. As we're looking to feature more inspiring stories of entrepreneurs all over the world, don't hesitate to contact us at partner@eoeoeo.net Newsletter | https://www.eomag.io/subscribe?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description LinkedIn | @EO STUDIO X | @eostudi0 instagram | @eostudio.official

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  • Sridhar Ramaswamy

    guest

    CEO of Snowflake and former Google executive, speaking about leadership, resilience, and learning from failure in the AI era.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of EO Studio, featuring Sridhar Ramaswamy, He Built $100B at Google, Then Failed. Now He Runs an $80B+ Company | Snowflake, Sridhar Ramaswamy explores Sridhar Ramaswamy on resilience, product obsession, and AI-era leadership Ramaswamy argues that personal identity must be separated from outcomes, emphasizing that people are more than both their failures and their successes.

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