Why is Snowflake so Valuable?
I've used Snowflake a fair amount. It's a decent product, probably on par with Redshift / BigQuery. Obviously theres a lot of hype and free money floating around but my take on why they are popular is that they are basically a replacement for large Hadoop installations that have become untenable to manage over the past decade. If a company is already using Redshift or BigQuery I'm not sure why they would switch.<p>I would be apprehensive in investing in Snowflake long term purely because their product is highly susceptible to being obsoleted in the next 5-10 years.