Snowflake collects dizzying numbers.
Its revenues grew 174% in its last fiscal year.
The number of its customers has increased by more than 100% in one year.
And for its first day of listing on the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, its stock soared 134%, valuing the young company at some 70 billion dollars.
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However, they were only two at the origin of this incredible adventure.
Snowflake's story begins with a whiteboard and printer, in Benoît Dageville's apartment in San Mateo, California.
It was there that in 2012, with the future co-founder Thierry Cruanes, they worked hard for five months to lay the foundations of a platform that would revolutionize the way of storing and analyzing data in the cloud. .
A graduate of Paris-VI University, Benoît Dageville left France in 1996, after years in research.
Sent to the United States by Bull for a six-month mission, he decides to stay there
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