Why Coatue invested in both Snowflake and Databricks before they competed

A great example of this is I think we were the only private investor that was invested in Snowflake and Databricks when they were both private.

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you are going to end up in assets that compete because they naturally expand TAMs. A great example of this is I think we were the only private investor that was invested in Snowflake and Databricks when they were both private. They started off in completely different areas. Databricks didn't have a data warehousing product, and Snowflake didn't really do a lot of ELT. It was mostly built around the ecosystem. They grew together, and they we weren't invested when they were starting to compete because Snowflake went public a lot earlier. But at the same time, that happens in big markets. It's so funny. You said that you eat the enterprise value, I think 65%

is done by four companies or created by four companies. I tweeted not too long ago that basically, unless you're an anthropic open AI, curse a lovable open evidence,

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Lucas Swisher explains how Coatue ended up investing in both Snowflake and Databricks when they operated in different areas, before they eventually grew to compete directly as they expanded their total addressable markets. He discusses how this competition dynamic naturally occurs in large markets.

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Provides a concrete example of how successful companies in large markets inevitably expand and compete, illustrated through a major VC's actual investment experience.

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