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Bob Muglia

Microsoft and Oracle, frenemies at last: What others can learn from their unlikely partnership

by Todd Bishop on October 3, 2023October 3, 2023 at 12:48 pm

“All partnerships are tactical. There is no such thing as a strategic partnership.” That’s one of the lessons that business and technology leader Bob Muglia tells the companies he works… Read More

Podcast

Data’s destiny: Former Microsoft and Snowflake exec Bob Muglia on the future of AI and humanity

by Todd Bishop on June 17, 2023June 17, 2023 at 8:29 am

This week: the origins of data, and the future of the digital species. Our guest on the GeekWire Podcast is business and tech leader Bob Muglia, a startup investor and… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft developer relations chief lands at Google; Amazon HR leader joins AppLovin

by Julie Emory on April 22, 2022May 3, 2022 at 1:06 pm

— Microsoft’s head of developer relations Ashley Willis McNamara announced Friday that she is departing and joining Google as head of developer communities. Willis spent more than five years at… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Facebook fallout; Seattle’s status as ‘Cloud City’; testing SpaceX Starlink

by Todd Bishop on December 12, 2020December 12, 2020 at 8:52 am

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: How the antitrust case against Facebook could impact the rest of the tech industry; the state of Seattle as “Cloud City”; and first impressions… Read More

Madrona leads $27M round in Twitter vets’ Fauna database startup; Bob Muglia named chairman

by Todd Bishop on July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 at 4:08 pm

Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group is leading a $27 million investment in Fauna, a company founded by two former Twitter engineers that is positioning itself as a leader in databases for… Read More

Snowflake Computing CEO Bob Muglia is out, replaced by former ServiceNow CEO Frank Slootman

by Tom Krazit on May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 at 10:42 am

Longtime Microsoft executive Bob Muglia, who oversaw five years of strong growth and enormous fundraising at data warehousing startup Snowflake Computing, is out as CEO, the company announced Wednesday. Muglia… Read More

With huge new $450M funding round, Snowflake Computing has now raised almost $1 billion

by Tom Krazit on October 11, 2018October 11, 2018 at 10:56 am

In January, after raising $263 million, Snowflake Computing CEO Bob Muglia indicated that the next time his fast-growing cloud data warehousing company tapped the financing markets, it would likely involve… Read More

Hot cloud database startup Snowflake Computing, born on Amazon Web Services, adds support for Microsoft Azure

by Tom Krazit on July 12, 2018July 13, 2018 at 2:14 pm

After establishing a foothold in the cloud-based data warehousing market on the infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services, Snowflake Computing is expected to announce Thursday that its customers will now… Read More

Another huge round for Snowflake: Bob Muglia’s database company raises $263M valued at $1.5B

by Tom Krazit on January 25, 2018January 24, 2018 at 11:39 pm

Longtime tech executive Bob Muglia might just be warming up. The CEO of Snowflake Computing has closed another huge funding round for the database company, which is now valued at… Read More

Interview: Bob Muglia, Microsoft veteran and Snowflake Computing CEO, on databases and a changing Seattle

by Tom Krazit on December 6, 2017December 6, 2017 at 3:38 pm

Tech is supposed to be a young person’s game, which makes the perspective of someone like Snowflake Computing CEO Bob Muglia even that much more valuable. Muglia, who ran Microsoft’s… Read More

CapitalOne invests $5M in Snowflake Computing after trying its new data warehouse for Wall Street

by Tom Krazit on September 6, 2017September 6, 2017 at 5:51 am

CapitalOne liked Snowflake Computing’s new data warehouse product for financial services companies so much that it decided it wanted to own a piece of the company. The two companies plan… Read More

Snowflake cloud data warehouse startup raises $100M; Madrona’s role reunites ex-Microsoft execs

by Todd Bishop on April 5, 2017April 5, 2017 at 6:18 am

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse startup that just announced a new engineering center in the Seattle region, has closed a $100 million funding round led by ICONIQ… Read More

Cloud data warehouse startup Snowflake opens Seattle-area engineering office, plans big growth

by Todd Bishop on March 30, 2017March 30, 2017 at 6:33 am

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse company led by former Microsoft exec Bob Muglia, is opening an engineering office in the Seattle region — planning to hire 10 to 15… Read More

Ex-Microsoft exec Bob Muglia raises $45M for data warehousing startup Snowflake

by James Risley on June 23, 2015June 23, 2015 at 10:52 am

Snowflake Computing announced today that it raised $45 million, with the company saying that it will use the funding to continue innovation in the data warehousing market. The big data startup… Read More

Former Microsoft exec Bob Muglia raises $26M for Snowflake, a data warehousing startup

by John Cook on October 21, 2014October 21, 2014 at 5:16 am

Bob Muglia is floating in the clouds, or should we say on some snowflakes. The longtime Microsoft veteran — who left the company in 2011 after 23 years, including a… Read More

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