Frank Slootman

Frank Slootman is the only CEO to take three companies public and has led two of the world's fastest growing enterprise tech companies of all time. In Unlocking Hypergrowth, Frank shares everything he's learned about what it takes to fully optimize an organization for hyper growth and scale. Broken into 20 chapters addressing the essential challenges for leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs, this book is a combination of first principles, mindsets, and tactical advice that, if embraced, will help readers unlock the true potential of their organization.Unlocking Hypergrowth is difficult and uncomfortable--it's about challenging the status quo every day, getting used to making conflicted trade-offs, avoiding incrementalism, refocusing resources to the only places where it counts, and being uncompromisingly objective. But its reward is great.

Silicon Valley has been birthing renegade technology companies for the better part of a century, a storied lineage that traces from Stanford’s Fred Terman to the Varian brothers’ Klystron amplifier, from the hallowed garage of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard to the bold “traitorous eight” who fled Shockley Labs to form Fairchild Semiconductor. These companies, to be sure, broke new science and engineering ground—yet their most lasting legacy may well be their pioneering approach to business itself. They blazed a path that led to Intel, Apple, Oracle, Genentech, Gilead, Sun, Adobe, Cisco, Yahoo, eBay, Google, Salesforce, Facebook, Twitter, and many, many others.What causes a fledgling company to break through and prosper? At the highest level, the blueprint is always the An upstart team with outsized ambition somehow possesses an uncanny ability to surpass customer expectations, upend whole industries, and topple incumbents. But how do they do it? If only we could observe the behaviors of such a company from the inside. If only we were granted a first-person perspective at a present-day Silicon Valley startup-cum-blockbuster. What might we learn? This document—the story of Data Domain’s rise from zero to one billion dollars in revenue—is your invitation to find out.For anyone curious about the process of new business formation, Tape Sucks offers a provocative, ripped-from-the-headlines case study. How does a new company bootstrap itself? What role does venture capital play? Why do customers and new recruits take a chance on a risky new player? Frank Slootman, who lived and breathed the Data Domain story for six years, offers up his clear-eyed, “first-person shooter” version of events. You’re with him on the inside as he and his team navigate the tricky waters of launching a high-technology business. You’ll feel—deep in your gut—the looming threat of outside combatants and the array of challenges that make mere survival an accomplishment. You’ll catch a glimpse of an adrenalin-fueled place where victories are visceral, communication wide open, and esprit de corps palpable.The upshot is that the principles of the early entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley are alive and well. Their straightforward ideas include employee-ownership, tolerance for failure, unfettered meritocracy, faith in the power of technology breakthroughs, a preference for handshakes and trust over contracts and lawsuits, pragmatism, egalitarianism, and a belief in the primacy of growth and reinvestment over dividends and outbound profits. Tape Sucks is an honest, informed perspective on technology wave riding. It allows you to observe a high-growth business at close range and get an unvarnished picture of how things really work.

The Data Cloud was born from a bold disrupt 50 years of computing to mobilize the world’s data. Rise of the Data Cloud chronicles an idea that evolved into one of the biggest breakthroughs in modern technology. The Data Cloud brings organizations and their data together so the true potential of the data economy can emerge. Find out how your enterprise can join the Data Cloud and reap the previously unimaginable benefits of transacting with data, locally and globally. Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, and Marcin Zukowski had a mission. As Snowflake’s founders, they wanted to make all types of data available to anybody with permission to use it via a simple and inexpensive mechanism. Their collective efforts drove the breakthrough creation of the Data Cloud. Snowflake’s Data Cloud platform ingests available data and transforms it into information. Without the ability to effectively process, data is just a collection of raw facts. If data can be managed, processed and organized, the resulting information can be harnessed to make data-driven decisions. Data Cloud allows organizations to fully automate many core business processes—making them more efficient, massively scalable, and less prone to error. Suppose you’re an IT manager responsible for managing data. Your frustrations with disconnected datasets, hardware storage constraints, lack of unique identifiers between multiple datasets, and access to analytics is making you and your organization less effective. This book will give you an understanding of what we’ve built to help you create a business with data as its most robust foundation. Snowflake delivers the Data Cloud — a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloes of data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds, helping power the data economy. Snowflake’s platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing.

Hyper scale your organization with practical prompts and exercisesSnowflake's chairman and former CEO Frank Slootman, one of Silicon Valley’s most respected figures in tech leadership, has penned the Amp It Up Fieldbook to help leaders grow any organization by challenging the status quo every day, getting used to making conflicted trade-offs, avoiding incrementalism, refocusing resources to the only places where they count, and being uncompromisingly objective.Building on Slootman’s wildly successful book, Amp It Up, this fieldbook helps readers easily apply his conceptual first principles, mindsets, and tactical advice to their own organizations and careers.Readers will learn How to align people around first principles that guide change and execute with urgency and intensity every day Maximizing growth and scale without making expensive changes to talent, structure, or fundamental business models The three essential characteristics of great mission statements, and why Slootman chose Snowflake’s current mission statement, broken down word-by-word How to identify personal blind spots that keep us from achieving our best With firsthand insight gleaned from Slootman’s personal experience over three decades of building hyper-growth companies, the Amp It Up Fieldbook earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs looking to take their organizations and careers to the next level.

Princípios para conduzir um crescimento sem Eleve seus padrões Acelere o ritmo Aprimore seu foco Alinhe seu pessoal e sua cultura “Frank Slootman traz sua experiência de entregar o sucesso à vista de todos nós para aprendermos e nos simplificar a proposta de valor, focar o cliente, eliminar distrações e confusão, conduzir incansavelmente a execução com excelência e mais rápido… Amplifique é uma receita que todos podemos aplicar.”— Frans van Houten, CEO da Royal Philips “Em meus mais de trinta anos de experiência como investidor de risco, nunca vi ninguém rivalizar com o know-how operacional de Frank. Com Frank, tudo começa e termina com uma execução hardcore e focada. ‘Fique confortável com o desconforto’, ‘esperança não é uma estratégia’ e ‘a melhor maneira de construir uma marca é conseguir mais clientes’ são alguns dos mantras pelos quais Frank nos ensinou a viver. Não há dúvida de que ele tornou muitos de nós melhores membros de conselho, pois ajudamos outros CEOs ao longo de suas jornadas.”—Doug Leone, sócio, Sequoia Capital “Frank Slootman é um dos CEOs com melhor desempenho que existe. Este livro é leitura essencial para todo líder que aspira motivar equipes, inspirar excelência e entregar além das expectativas.” — Bill McDermott, presidente e CEO da ServiceNow

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"El éxito de una empresa no es casualidad, es el resultado de un liderazgo asertivo y una mentalidad enfocada en la acción y una mentalidad enfocada en la acción.Liderar no es solo dirigir, administrar o resolver, es transformar. No se trata de hacer grandes cambios en tu equipo o estructura, sino de ejecutar con urgencia e intensidad todos los días, alinear a las personas hacia una misión en común y enfocarte en aquello que realmente impulsa el crecimiento.Frank Slootman, uno de los ejecutivos más influyentes del sector tecnológico, comparte su método de solo cinco pasos para transformar tu empresa desde adentro, sin necesidad de hacer grandes inversiones ni cambios drásticos en la estructura.Con principios claros y consejos tácticos, este libro es tu mejor aliado si estás buscando impulsar el crecimiento de tu organización a un nivel sin precedentes y alcanzar el máximo rendimiento organizacional. Si estás listo para construir algo verdaderamente extraordinario, este es tu manual de batalla. ¿Aceptas el desafío?"