Snowflake’s Frank Slootman, CEO of this year’s hottest IPO, finds his focus in one ‘incredibly hard’ question

Snowflake’s Frank Slootman, CEO of this year’s hottest IPO, finds his focus in one ‘incredibly hard’ question

Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake, on the day of its 2020 IPO. He is known as a demanding leader, and straight shooter. "I've often been in board meetings at other companies and the CEO will put up a list of 10 priorities ... well, that's the same as having no priorities," he recently told CNBC.CNBCBoasting the hottest tech IPO of the year (and the biggest software IPO ever), Snowflake, the cloud-based data-warehousing company has been on fire in 2020. And its CEO Frank Slootman, at the center of that success, has now delivered three companies to the public markets, earning his place as one of the most respected CEOs in enterprise technology.Nineteen months ago, Slootman was named CEO of Snowflake, which gives businesses new ways to store and access data, rather