
He passed on familiar names for a seven-person startup, polished its first launch until dawn, watched nobody arrive, and stayed long enough to help rebuild the product around the cloud.

Before Sigma passed $200 million in annual recurring revenue, its co-founder spent years staring at a line that barely moved. His career is a study in patient engineering, durable relationships, and the usefulness of refusing the obvious exit.

Mike Palmer is the CEO of Sigma Computing, a San Francisco cloud analytics company that lets business users query data warehouses through a spreadsheet interface. He took the seat in May 2020 from co-founder Rob Woollen and has since scaled Sigma past $100M ARR, through a $200M Series D and a Series E that valued the company at roughly $3B.