Biewald: Top-Down Enterprise Software Startups Cannot Transition to Product-Led Growth
“The early companies had to sell to executives, which I totally understand. Like that's what crowdflower had to do. And the problem there is you kind of get stuck in these like multimillion dollar deals and like, you just can't get out of that. Like you can't s…”
Increasing dataset accuracy from 90% to 95% repeatedly halves error rates
“So this is my same data set that I published online, but if you take it from 90% to 95%, you actually have the error rate, and then going up to a hundred percent, you have it again, right?”
CrowdFlower spent just $100 to collect 10,000 initial color labels
“We collected that data. It maybe cost us a hundred bucks to get 10,000 labels.”
CrowdFlower supplied raw Apple Watch survey data to journalists instead of PR
“Instead of sending out to journalists the our, like, the crowd flower analysis, we actually sent them the data and kind of let them draw their own conclusions.”
CrowdFlower claims to have the largest dataset determining if images are funny
“We have a gigantic, maybe the biggest data set available on, isn't image funny?”
CrowdFlower pays all global crowd workers the same flat compensation rate
“We pay everyone the same regardless of what country you come in from.”
Thirty percent of CrowdFlower's crowdsourced workforce is based in the US
“It's also 30% US-based.”
CrowdFlower charges a platform fee plus up to a 20% take rate
“We have a platform fee to use our software, and then we take a, up to a 20% cut of the work that, that flows through our platform.”