Snowflake CEO Declares War on Meetings, Because Nobody Likes Their Own Bureaucracy
KEY POINTS
- •Sridhar Ramaswamy became Snowflake's CEO in 2023 and immediately targeted meetings for efficiency improvements.
- •He requires agendas published beforehand, notes after, and refuses to meet without a clear purpose and the right attendees.
- •Ramaswamy encourages open discussion, limits domineering speakers, and urges quick meeting endings to avoid creating more problems.
In a move that will have every cubicle hater cheering, Sridhar Ramaswamy, Snowflake’s new CEO since 2023, dropped a four-commandment gospel against pointless meetings. This cloud data company exec wakes at 5 a.m. sharp to prep for meetings, refuses to show up without a shared agenda, and demands notes like you’d demand coffee on a Monday. He insists meetings must have a clear goal with the 'right people'—no more prestige or sneaky ways to pad LinkedIn profiles here. Boss man hates passive facts in meetings, preferring open discussion and making sure no monopolizer hijacks the room. And if a meeting is 'glorious success,' he tells his minions to run like the conference room’s suddenly on fire to avoid extra headaches. Proof that even CEOs are terrible drivers of their own lives, but hey, at least this one’s trying to dodge bureaucratic potholes.
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Snowflake CEO apparently solves meeting fatigue by treating agendas and notes like sacred relics. Meanwhile, we peasants will just nod and smile as someone talks for 45 minutes about 'alignment.'
If your meetings don’t have agendas and notes, congratulations, you just lost a CEO’s interest and probably every sane attendee's too.
He wakes at 5 a.m. prepping meetings and still calls meetings bureaucracies. We're all driving in the same poorly planned parade.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 12/28/2025 | Author: Ana Altchek
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