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Salesforce decisions heavily relied on spreadsheet guesses ten years ago
“At least 10 years ago when I was there, the company was still largely run on hypotheses, you know, spreadsheets with some guesses in it. Like they couldn't, the vast majority of people that were making the important decisions couldn't really leverage all of th…”
Woollen: Sutter Hill primarily incubates companies rather than investing externally
“They're an interesting firm and that they tend to primarily start companies as opposed to investing in other people's companies.”
Sigma Computing has officially crossed $100M ARR and 1,400 customers
“We're over a hundred now. We're over 1400 customers.”
Woollen: Cloud data warehouses traditionally locked data behind SQL and Python
“And our key insight was that companies increasingly move a large majority of their data into these large cloud data systems like a Snowflake or a Databricks or Google BigQuery. And those systems traditionally, you could really only access them directly if you …”
Woollen: Sigma's target problems are identical to its 2014 founding document
“That was probably January or February of 2014, and I recently found some document we wrote back then, and we sort of outlined all these problems in the industry at the time, and we've wavered a lot on exactly how we're gonna solve all those problems, but the a…”
Sigma raised an $8M Series A in April 2014 without a product
“We raised in April. But yes, we were able to raise and this is the part where I'd say we're very fortunate in that we had long track records. So we were very well known people to the investors. But the investors gave us an eight million dollar, a series A out …”
Woollen: Two of Sigma's five team members quit after year one
“And then actually two of the people were just like, yeah, we do this for a year. We, we're gonna, we're out. And so we went from a team of five back to a team of three”
Sigma built a spreadsheet-to-SQL prototype in three weeks for a Snowflake meeting
“And so, we once again threw away everything we'd done, and in essentially, I think about three weeks between the time we set the meeting, when we actually showed up there, we built a brand new interface, one that looks like a tiny part of our product right now…”
Sigma Computing closed exactly zero new customers in the second quarter of 2019
“And so the next quarter, and I still see this on our on our company sort of dashboard, the next quarter we closed zero new customers.”