{"id":1012823,"date":"2026-06-08T08:11:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012823"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:47:56","slug":"timing-not-talent-holding-back-snowflakes-india-rd-expansion-cofounder-benoit-dageville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/08\/timing-not-talent-holding-back-snowflakes-india-rd-expansion-cofounder-benoit-dageville\/","title":{"rendered":"Timing, not talent, holding back Snowflake\u2019s India R&amp;D expansion: Cofounder Beno\u00eet Dageville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As artificial intelligence moves from pilots to large-scale use inside companies, Snowflake is keeping its core product work tightly tied to global engineering teams, with timing and coordination challenges shaping how much it can expand its R&amp;D presence in markets such as India. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no firm plan for a full R&amp;D setup in India. The issue is not talent. The issue is timing,\u201d Beno\u00eet Dageville, cofounder of AI data cloud company Snowflake, told ET in an interview at the company\u2019s annual summit in San Francisco. He added that core product development requires tightly integrated teams that work in constant coordination, making distributed ownership more complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As artificial intelligence moves from pilots to large-scale use inside companies, Snowflake is keeping its core product work tightly tied to global engineering teams, with timing and coordination challenges shaping how much it can expand its R&amp;D presence in markets such as India. \u201cThere is no firm plan for a full R&amp;D setup in India. The issue is not talent. The issue is timing,\u201d Beno\u00eet Dageville, cofounder of AI data cloud company Snowflake, told ET in an interview at the company\u2019s annual summit in San Francisco. He added that core product development requires tightly integrated teams that work in constant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012841,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012823\/revisions\/1012841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}