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Shares of American cloud computing firm Snowflake Inc (NYSE: SNOW) are seeing a major plunge in the pre-market today as the company released its first-quarter fiscal 2024 revenue report. Despite its impressive performance, the company shared a lower-than-expected revenue guidance for the second quarter.
The company said its revenue for the first quarter came in at $624 million as against the $608 million that was projected by analysts polled by Refinitiv analysts. In a bid to complement the revenue that surpassed expectations, Snowflake also reported adjusted earnings per share of 15 cents as against the 5 cents that were projected by analysts.
Snowflake is a Bozeman Montana-based company whose product offering is gradually becoming well embraced. By its current performance revelations, it saw a 48% growth in the year-over-year period. The major part of the company’s revenue came from product sales which surged as much as 50% year over year.
“During Q1, Snowflake’s product revenue grew 50%, totaling $590 million. Non-GAAP adjusted free cash flow was $287 million for the quarter, up 58% year-over-year,” said Frank Slootman, Chairman and CEO, Snowflake. “Data has gravitational pull, and given the vast universe of data Snowflake manages, it is no surprise that interest in data science, AI and machine learning is escalating while its uses are rapidly evolving.”
According to Snowflake, it recorded 373 customers who had as much as $1 million in trailing 12-month product revenue. The company also reported a net revenue retention rate of 151%. The firm said its product has started gaining massive acceptance and said “thousands of customers across many industries, including 590 of the 2022 Forbes Global 2000 (G2K) as of April 30, 2023, use Snowflake Data Cloud to power their businesses.”
As a business that is looking to compete with the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud, expanding its operations is key. One of the ways it hopes to achieve this is by acquiring Neeva, the privacy-focused search company co-founded by former Google executive Sridhar Ramaswamy.
The company plans to leverage the AI capabilities of the Neeva search engine in all of its cloud service products. By offering diversity to its global brand, Snowflake, and Neeva will be placed on a renewed profitability path that the company said it expects to help push its revenue to $620 million and $625 million in the fiscal second quarter. This projection is below the $649 million that was profiled by analysts from StreetAccount.
The full 2024 fiscal year revenue projection came in at $2.6 billion, a figure that pales when compared to the $2.7 billion that analysts are expecting for the year.
The below-than-expected revenue guidance has stirred a massive plunge in Snowflake shares by as much as 14.19% as investors appear to be expressing negative optimism with respect to the future of the company.
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Ethereum could have saved a lot of pain and effort by implementing Snow White, Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson tweeted to one of Vitalik Buterin’s posts. Hoskinson previously brought up the matter, arguing that Elaine Shi’s Snow White Proof-of-Stake [PoS] consensus will make Ethereum 2.0 much superior.
But what exactly is this Snow White and most importantly why did the Ethereum founder choose to ignore it?
Elaine Shi is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, an institution known for being one of the most cutting-edge blockchain centers in the US.
In 2016, she co-authored a paper on Snow White PoS consensus which it claimed would “provides the first formal, end-to-end proof of a Proof-of-Stake system in a completely decentralized, open-participation network” where nodes can join at any time even after the system has been established.
Hoskinson praised the protocol calling it great and a competitor to ‘Ouroboros’ [Cardano PoS consensus].
My biggest problem is that he hasn’t divided and conquered. Like, for example, in the development of Casper — Casper, Vitalik could have gone to Cornell and went to Elaine Shi. And back in 2016, Elaine Shi came up with this, so he could have very easily gone there and said, Here is a $5 million grant, go develop Casper.
This would, in Hoskinson’s opinion, solve the “minimal intellectual rigor” that was allegedly present during the development of Ethereum.
According to Hoskinson, Buterin could have hired eminent researchers who were passionate about the issue to develop a strong consensus algorithm for him, freeing him up to concentrate on building the rest of the company and its technologies.
Hoskinson claimed Buterin had different plans.
“Now he wanted to develop Casper himself, which meant he divided his time between being a CEO and being an engineer and a scientist. And he tried to go and develop something that he had no native experience in and had to learn the whole theory himself, even if he’s a genius. It takes time.”
Hoskinson came to the conclusion that Ethereum could have saved a lot of time and effort by building on the solid foundation already in place rather than starting from scratch, which would have also eliminated the project’s ongoing delays.