
Great Things with Great Tech Podcast · 2025-05-12 · 41 min
We all talk about #AI, but what good is it if your models are powered by stale, outdated data?In Episode 99 of Great Things with Great Tech, Deepti Srivastava, founder and CEO of Snow Leopard, and former founding PM of Google Spanner, calls out the broken state of enterprise AI. With decades of experience in distributed systems and data infrastructure, Deepti unveils how Snow Leopard is redefining how AI applications are built, by tapping into live, real-time data from SQL and APIs without the need for ETL or pipelines.Instead of relying on static snapshots or disconnected data lakes, Snow Leopard’s #agentic platform queries native sources like PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and Salesforce on-demand, empowering AI to live directly in the critical decision path.In This Episode, We Cover: Deepti’s journey from building Spanner at Google to founding Snow Leopard AI. Why most enterprise AI fails due to reliance on stale data and outdated pipelines. How Snow Leopard federates live data across SQL and APIs with zero ETL. The limitations of vector databases in structured, real-time business use cases. Why putting AI in the critical path of business decisions unlocks real value.