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It can work, as that's exactly what Snowflake has done and it's one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies today.

A good product is more valuable than a partnership.



Good products, but don't discount their go-to-market strategy.

IIRC MS/Azure is an early Databricks investor and their sales folks were heavily incentivised to sell it. They also pushed Snowflake in the early days until they had a competing product and their relationship status was upgraded to 'it's complicated'.


Databricks as well. Azure sells both their own version and “Azure Databricks”




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