HyperSocial CEO Goes Viral with 57,000 Reactions After Layoff Selfie

Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst

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Social Media Risks: HyperSocial CEO Braden Wallake became known as the 'Crying CEO' after sharing a tearful selfie post-layoff, which garnered over 57,000 reactions, highlighting the potential negative impact of social media on corporate image.
Executive Online Trend: Data shows that nearly 75% of Fortune 500 CEOs had social media accounts in 2023, a significant increase of about 50% from 2019, indicating a growing reliance on social platforms to enhance brand visibility.
Content Style Shift: An increasing number of CEOs are sharing personal life content rather than just company news, and while this style can attract attention, it may also provoke negative public reactions.
Complex Public Response: Although social media can enhance brand exposure, the experiences of Wallake and other executives demonstrate that negative feedback and public mockery can lead to dissatisfaction among investors and consumers, potentially harming the company's reputation.

SNOW

$222.46+Infinity%1D

Analyst Views on SNOW

Wall Street analysts forecast SNOW stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for SNOW is 274.58 USD with a low forecast of 221.00 USD and a high forecast of 325.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.

34 Analyst Rating

31 Buy

3 Hold

0 Sell

Strong Buy

Current: 221.310

Low

221.00

Averages

274.58

High

325.00

Current: 221.310

Low

221.00

Averages

274.58

High

325.00

Raymond James

NULL

Outperform

initiated

$274 -> $250

2025-12-15

Reason

Raymond James

Price Target

$274 -> $250

2025-12-15

initiated

NULL

Outperform

Reason

Raymond James assumed coverage of Snowflake with an Outperform rating with a price target of $250, down from $274. Snowflake is transitioning from a cloud data warehouse into a broader data, application, and AI platform, positioning the company to capture a larger share of enterprise workloads, and as AI adoption accelerates, platform convergence increases, and open data architectures become standard, Snowflake has multiple growth drivers and ways to expand its strategic relevance with large customers, the analyst tells investors in a research note. While competitive pressures from other leading database vendors remain central debates, Snowflake's platform evolution, expanding use cases, and potential for more durable consumption trends provide a credible path to sustaining premium growth and margins, the firm added.

Citi

Buy

downgrade

$310 -> $300

2025-12-08

Reason

Citi

Price Target

$310 -> $300

2025-12-08

downgrade

Buy

Reason

Citi lowered the firm's price target on Snowflake to $300 from $310 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares. The company reported a lower fiscal Q3 beat relative to expectations but issued strong Q4 sales guidance, the analyst tells investors in a research note.

JPMorgan

Mark Murphy

Overweight

maintain

$255 -> $268

2025-12-04

Reason

JPMorgan

Mark Murphy

Price Target

$255 -> $268

2025-12-04

maintain

Overweight

Reason

JPMorgan analyst Mark Murphy raised the firm's price target on Snowflake to $268 from $255 and keeps an Overweight rating on the shares. The company's Q3 product revenue showed less magnitude of upside compared to the "outsized" Q2 upside and dipped below 30% growth, the analyst tells investors in a research note. However, JPMorgan believes Snowflake is seeing broad-based momentum across its business, which should offset the "near-term expectations mismatch."

Morgan Stanley

Overweight

maintain

$272 -> $299

2025-12-04

Reason

Morgan Stanley

Price Target

$272 -> $299

2025-12-04

maintain

Overweight

Reason

Morgan Stanley raised the firm's price target on Snowflake to $299 from $272 and keeps an Overweight rating on the shares. Product revenue growth that slowed to 29% off a tough quarter-over-quarter comparison fell short of investor expectations, but strong bookings and a "robust" Q4 outlook suggests demand "remains healthy," the analyst says following earnings.

About SNOW

Snowflake Inc. is a data cloud and artificial intelligence company. Its platform is the technology that powers the AI Data Cloud, enabling customers to consolidate data into a single source of truth to drive meaningful insights, apply artificial intelligence (AI) to solve business problems, build data applications, and share data and data products. It provides its platform through a customer-centric, and consumption-based business model. Its cloud-native architecture consists of three independently scalable but logically integrated layers across compute, storage, and cloud services. The compute layer provides dedicated resources to enable users to simultaneously access common data sets for many use cases with minimal latency. The storage layer ingests massive amounts and varieties of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to create a unified data record. Its ClearQuery platform allows users to rapidly search, explore, and analyze their data using natural language queries.

About the author

Emily J. Thompson

Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.