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S11 E1: The 7-Year Revenue Drought: Surviving Near-Zero Growth to Build a $1.5B Cloud Analytics Juggernaut with Rob Woollen, Co-Founder & CTO of Sigma Computing
May 27, 2025 · Season 11 · Episode 1 · 21 min
UI for Excel with the power of a data warehouse
Rob Woollen lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He grew up with a Father in IT and management, and his Mother as an English teacher. He has been programming for a long time, since the early days on his Apple 2E (yes, the green screen one). Outside of tech, he is married with 3 boys, all teenagers. He also has a 1 year old golden retriever, and spends a lot of time ensuring he lives his best life. In addition to this, he and his wife enjoy hiking around the Marin area, as they have the best hiking trials.
Rob spent many years at Salesforce, and it struck him that many of the company operations were still done on spreadsheets. When he left the company, he started exploring how to create something to support large scale data sets, within the familiar UI of spreadsheets.
This is the creation story of Sigma Computing.
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Paddle.comSema SoftwarePropelAuthPostmanMeilisearch
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https://www.sigmacomputing.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwoollen/
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