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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S11 E1: Rob Woollen, Sigma Computing
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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Headlines From The Times - Record Settlement, Rising Talent, and a Legal Showdown
Southern California Edison agrees to pay $82.5 million for its role in the Bobcat Fire. In Yucaipa, 11-year-old Alisa Perales becomes the youngest community college graduate in her school’s history. Meanwhile, Disney sues YouTube over a high-profile executive hire, escalating the fight between streaming giants. And in Silver Lake, one couple spends $830,000 on a bold hillside ADU that blends luxury, fitness, and design.
Marketplace All-in-One - Big Tech pivots from the carrot to the stick
Big Tech firms like Microsoft, Meta and Google are using stricter performance reviews to bring up productivity and weed out low performing workers. It’s a noticeable pivot away from the perks that defined Silicon Valley work culture a decade ago. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Alistair Barr, author of the Business Insider Tech Memo Newsletter, about their recent coverage of this latest shift.
Marketplace All-in-One - “Million Bazillion” returns June 3!
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WSJ What’s News - EU Gets Tariff Deadline Extension
A.M. Edition for May 27. President Trump gives the European Union a reprieve on his threat to impose 50% tariffs on June 1 if a trade deal isn’t reached. The WSJ’s Kim Mackrael in Brussels talks us through the negotiations. Plus, Trump weighs sanctions against Russia as Moscow pummels Ukraine with drones and missiles. And Canada’s new leader Mark Carney takes up the task of fixing the country’s relationship with Trump. Former Canadian diplomat Colin Robertson previews King Charles’s historic speech at the opening of parliament. Azhar Sukri hosts.
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The Daily - A New Front Line for Abortion Rights
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortions in the United States actually went up, in part because of a novel legal strategy that pitted blue states against red states.
Pam Belluck, who covers health and science for The Times, discusses that strategy and explains how proceedings against a New York doctor could take it apart.
Guest: Pam Belluck, a health and science reporter at The New York Times.
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- The Louisiana case appears to be the first time criminal charges have been filed against an abortion provider for sending pills into a state with a ban.
- From 2024: Abortion shield laws are a new war between the states.
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WSJ Minute Briefing - EU Agrees to Fast-Track Trade Talks as Trump Delays Tariffs
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Start Here - Ciao for Now: Trump Delays European Tariffs
After threatening to accelerate tariffs on Europe, President Trump reverses course by delaying them. Russia pounds Ukraine with an unprecedented drone attack. And a car plows into pedestrians at a Liverpool parade.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE MINING POD: TeraWulf’s AI Power Play With Nazar Khan
How do Bitcoin miners and AI compute actually build out together? TeraWulf’s Naz Khan breaks down infrastructure builds and the recent G42 deal on The Mining Pod.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Nazar Khan, co-founder of TeraWulf, joins us to talk about the company's move into AI data centers. We talk about the Core42 partnership, breakout costs to build a facility, and their 750MW Lake Mariner site development plans.
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01:18 Introduction
04:04 Talen & Amazon
09:44 Core 42
12:28 Lake Mariner site
17:04 Memphis XAI site build
18:49 Ordering hardware
24:27 Fractal Bitcoin
25:02 Anchor tenant search
31:59 Build cost
36:46 Water use
38:32 Core 42 details
46:03 BTC mining skepticism
47:29 Managing mining & HPC
53:34 Hiring
55:38 2 technology stacks
57:54 Supply chains
1:01:11 Buildout complications
1:08:26 Core team longevity
1:13:35 Orangpilling Beowulf
1:18:42 UAE
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