Marc Benioff, CEO and Founder of Salesforce, was previously an executive at Oracle. Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, and Marcin Żukowski, founders of Snowflake, were senior data architects at Oracle before founding Snowflake. Coincidence?
https://matt-rickard.com/is-snowflake-a-platform/
https://matt-rickard.com/is-snowflake-a-platform/