Sigma had under $800K ARR and 50 customers at year seven
Mike Palmer · Dashboards Are Dead: Sigma’s BI Revolution for Trillion-Row Data · May 1, 2025 · at 13:36
Mike Palmer, CEO of Sigma Computing, details the company's financial and headcount metrics when he took over before scaling it beyond $100M ARR.
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“So I joined, you know, almost seven years into the company. They had less, you know, about 800,000 dollars in ARR, 50 customers and about 50 employees.”
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