Early Life
Benoit Dageville was born in Antibes, France, in 1966. He pursued his passion for computer science, earning a BS, MS, and PhD from Jussieu University in Paris. During his studies, he focused on database systems, a field that would later shape his career.
Rise to Success
Dageville's career began at Bull Information Systems before he joined Oracle Corporation, where he spent 16 years. At Oracle, he served as a lead architect for parallel execution, contributing to the development of Oracle RAC. During his time there, he met Thierry Cruanes, with whom he would later co-found Snowflake. In 2012, Dageville, along with Cruanes and Marcin Zukowski, co-founded Snowflake, aiming to revolutionize data warehousing. He helped define the architecture and lead database performance efforts for Snowflake's systems.
Key Business Strategies
Snowflake's success is rooted in its innovative cloud-based data warehousing platform. The company's architecture separates storage and compute resources, enabling scalable, pay-per-use data processing. The company went public in 2020, which became one of the largest software IPOs in history. Dageville's leadership has been crucial in shaping Snowflake's technical strategy and product development, driving the company's growth.
Philanthropy
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