What Everyone is Getting Wrong About Snowflake (105)

This week’s podcast is about Snowflake, the "data ecosystem" company. It is one of the most compelling digital business models out there. It is one of the few companies that could become the next Google or Microsoft.You can listen to this podcast here or at iTunes and Google Podcasts.Here is my new book (released December 1):

• Moats and Marathons (Part 1): How to Build and Measure Competitive Advantage in Digital Businesses Kindle Edition

A summary of the Digital Operating Basics:

1. Scale and growth and small incremental cost.
2. Personalization. 
3. A digital core for operations. 
4. Ecosystem and connectedness. 
5. People, culture and work design form a social engine that enables innovation and execution personalized for each customer. 
6. Operational cash flow. 

Here is a previous podcast on that.

• Lessons in Digital Operating Basics from Ram Charan. Part 1 of 2 on “Rethinking Competitive Advantage”. (Asia Tech Strategy – Podcast 98)

---—-Related articles:

• Snowflake is Building 3 Complementary Platforms with 4 Network Effects (Pt 1 of 3) (Asia Tech Strategy – Daily Lesson / Update)
• Snowflake is Building 3 Complementary Platforms with 4 Network Effects (Pt 2 of 3) (Asia Tech Strategy – Daily Lesson / Update)
• Part 3: Snowflake’s Big Growth and Competition Questions (Pt 3 of 3) (Asia Tech Strategy – Daily Lesson / Update)

From the Concept Library, concepts for this article are:

• Complementary Platforms
• Digital Operating Basics

From the Company Library, companies for this article are:

• Snowflake

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