Berkshire Hathaway has offloaded nearly $1 billion in Snowflake stock as it exits the former IPO chart-smashing cloud data warehousing and analytics specialist.with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the investment company run by Wall Street legend Warren Buffett now holds no stock in Snowflake, which achieved a
Although Berkshire Hathaway did not disclose the reason for its about turn on Snowflake – it also reduced its holdings in Apple stock – the decision could be explained by the analytics company's bumpy ride over the last 12 months. Shares plunged 24 percent following the news, while CEO Frank Slootman – who took the company through its IPO – departed to be replaced by Sridhar Ramaswamy, previously Snowflake's senior VP of AI and former Google senior vice president.
The longer-term challenges for the company focus on its charging model. Late last year, Gartner noted in a report that Snowflake continued to lead the industry in terms of the"ease with which its analytical systems can be implemented and operated."