Data-Based Businesses, Executive Briefings, and Spotting Scams with Anand Sanwal

I love how even though I tried to pick a non nerdy data one, it actually underneath the hood was a n a nerdy data one. You're like the You're a data hammer and the whole world is just little nails that you're just trying to hammer with your you know, like the best business threwing in the data like a vacuum. You're the data dyson that's just taking in this data from everywhere you can. Man, founders are you like A lot of times not good at explaining what they do to idiots. So can I do it? Can I so all right, I'm gonna make you look cool. I'm gonna be your wig man.

So You run a I don't know if you call it software or a data business, but people pay subscriptions And uh your your company, CB Insights, you're now getting close to a hundred million a year in revenue, which is like a huge accomplishment. Hundreds of employees as well. And Basically, and this is the part that's kind of hard to u understand for someone like Sean and I, because we haven't run like really, really huge companies, but basically when a company that has a thousand people

have to decide what software they have to buy. Like let's say it's just like some customer support software or payroll or something. They need to do tons and tons of research to make sure that the business that they're gonna pick, the vendor they're gonna pick, Like s will stay in business or will be around for ten or twenty years, things like that, as well as a bunch of other in information. And you have crawled through what you call dirty data. So all this data out there exists, but you just put it in a bit of bits of software that make it really easy to digest and understand so a person can make a right and smart decision. And they pay you like thirty or fifty or a hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year to access all that. Is that right?

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