[wardb]

Competing with Amazon/Google/Microsoft on their own cloud is...ehm...good luck with that indeed. I believe they should have partnered with them early on (real partnership, like a premier offering, not the rubber stamp / marketplace partnership).

[manigandham]

It can work, as that's exactly what Snowflake has done and it's one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies today.

A good product is more valuable than a partnership.

[wardb]

Good products, but don't discount their go-to-market strategy.

IIRC MS/Azure is an early Databricks investor and their sales folks were heavily incentivised to sell it. They also pushed Snowflake in the early days until they had a competing product and their relationship status was upgraded to 'it's complicated'.

[8ytecoder]

Databricks as well. Azure sells both their own version and “Azure Databricks”