Portrait of Frank Slootman

Rank #1218

Frank Slootman

Net worth $3.6B

Software · United States

Born
Oct 03, 1958
Age
67
Source
Software
Residence
Pleasanton, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Married
Children
2
Education
Bachelor of Science, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Master of Science, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Frank Slootman is the CEO of Snowflake, a cloud-based database firm he joined in 2019 and took public in 2020 in a blockbuster IPO.
  • The IPO was the third for Dutch-born Slootman, who moved to California for a job at Compuware during the dotcom boom, then worked at Borland Software.
  • In 2003, he became CEO of storage startup Data Domain, taking it public in 2007 and selling it to EMC in 2009 for $1.8 billion.
  • Two years later, he was back at it again as chairman of enterprise software business ServiceNow, which he guided to a 2012 IPO.
  • Including his stock options, Slootman owns about 4% of Snowflake.
  • Before accepting the Snowflake CEO job, Slootman was retired and racing sailboats competitively in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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