Software startup Snowflake Computing has been surging in the market with a 121% boost in sales as of July.
Snowflake provides a cloud-based data-storage service to help companies analyze data. In January, its revenues skyrocketed by 173.7% to $264.7 million at the end of the fiscal year, although its net loss nearly doubled to $348.54 million.
Slootman holds economics undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the Erasmus University Rotterdam's Netherlands School of Economics.
As noted by Forbes, Slootman has more than 25 years of entrepreneurial and executive experience in the software industry. In 2007, he took over as Data Domain public as CEO and President before he sold it to EMC in 2009 for $2.4 billion.
He then served as CEO and President of software company ServiceNow between 2011 and 2017. He led the company's IPO to grow its shares from around $100M to $1.4 billion market value, which was 18.6-fold growth since its initial offering in June 2012.
As Slootman told Forbes in February that a Snowflake IPO will not be an exit, but a way for expanding the business. "The IPO is an unwritten contract between employees and the company so they can realize their investment," the CEO said.
Meanwhile, Snowflake is currently "building an investable model" to generate a foreseeable revenue. Slootman said that they are reorganizing and strengthening the management, expanding productivity, boosting efficiency as well as making changes to research and development and distribution. "We are preparing our systems, compliance, and processes for going public," he said.
Meanwhile, Slootman commended Muglia for doing a great job leading Snowflake to the success it is now with a strong customer base. Beating tech giants Amazon and Microsoft for Capital One data storage deal is a great deal for a startup like Snowflake.
Frank Slootman Net Worth
As of June 2018, Slootman's estimated net worth is $131 million. He owns over 100,000 units of ServiceNow stock worth $73,852,409 but has sold over $57,263,956 worth of stocks in the last eight years.
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Written by CJ Robles
