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Bob Muglia

Tech Moves: SheerID names new CEO; Pinecone adds COO; legal vet joins Docusign; and more

Portland, Ore.-based marketing verification startup SheerID named Stephanie Copeland Weber as the company’s CEO on Monday. She succeeds SheerID co-founder Jake… Read More

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

“All partnerships are tactical. There is no such thing as a strategic partnership.” That’s one of the lessons that business… Read More

Podcast

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

This week: the origins of data, and the future of the digital species. Our guest on the GeekWire Podcast is… Read More

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

— Microsoft’s head of developer relations Ashley Willis McNamara announced Friday that she is departing and joining Google as head… Read More

Podcast

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

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: How the antitrust case against Facebook could impact the rest of the tech industry;… Read More

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

Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group is leading a $27 million investment in Fauna, a company founded by two former Twitter engineers… Read More

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

Longtime Microsoft executive Bob Muglia, who oversaw five years of strong growth and enormous fundraising at data warehousing startup Snowflake… Read More

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

In January, after raising $263 million, Snowflake Computing CEO Bob Muglia indicated that the next time his fast-growing cloud data… Read More

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

After establishing a foothold in the cloud-based data warehousing market on the infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services, Snowflake Computing… Read More

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

Longtime tech executive Bob Muglia might just be warming up. The CEO of Snowflake Computing has closed another huge funding… Read More

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

Tech is supposed to be a young person’s game, which makes the perspective of someone like Snowflake Computing CEO Bob… Read More

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

CapitalOne liked Snowflake Computing’s new data warehouse product for financial services companies so much that it decided it wanted to… Read More

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

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse startup that just announced a new engineering center in the Seattle region,… Read More

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

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse company led by former Microsoft exec Bob Muglia, is opening an engineering office in… Read More

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

Snowflake Computing announced today that it raised $45 million, with the company saying that it will use the funding to continue… Read More

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

Bob Muglia is floating in the clouds, or should we say on some snowflakes. The longtime Microsoft veteran — who… Read More

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