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Sigma CEO Mike Palmer says text-to-SQL AI products are a joke
“So I think these products are a joke. I don't think that they're going to succeed and we don't care about them.”
Mike Palmer requires all Sigma Computing employees to work in-office
“Even in face masks, I required everybody to come back to the office and I still require that today. Which is its own conversation, but I'm not a believer in remote work”
Mike Palmer: Forcing SQL concepts into natural language is engineering hubris
“So the idea that I'm supposed to adopt a SQL semantic concept into my natural language is the ultimate hubris of engineering.”
Sutter Hill's Mike Spicer funds companies despite overwhelming failure evidence
“Which is, by the way, a testament to Mike Spicer at Sutter Hill because he is, he has so much conviction in his companies that despite overwhelming evidence that the company is a total failure, he keeps investing in it.”
Palmer: Sigma's query transaction overhead is under one second
“Our customers have up to trillions of records. And our overhead on that transaction is less than one second.”
Internal study: Enterprise clients touch only 0.1% of warehouse data tables
“So we looked at all of our enterprise customers Table utilization over a 60 day period, and .1% of the tables in their warehouses were ever touched.”
JPMorgan built a six-billion-row pivot table using Sigma Computing
“But the fun part is like a reference JP Morgan Who uses our product, and when they connected the first time, the guys, I think, is sort of like, I can swear in here. Holy , holy , I just built a six billion row pivot table, right?”
Sigma Computing grew from $2M to $100M ARR in 3.5 years
“We went from a couple of million dollars in June of 21 to a hundred million dollars three and a half years later”