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Josh Green

Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Novata. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Josh Green is the co-founder and former CEO of Panjiva, a global trade data platform acquired by S&P Global in 2018. In 2021, he co-founded Novata, an ESG data platform serving private markets.

What they said5 Shows1

Everything Josh Green said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

MAD Insight

In an era of data abundance, the main risk is opportunity cost

“The real danger in an era of abundant data is really opportunity cost. If you spend too much time playing with a data set that you can't extract value from, you missed an opportunity to play with another data set that you might actually get value from.”

Josh Green Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 15:10 Josh Green, Panjiva // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

MAD Insight

Find a problem worth solving before searching for data

“So go hunting for the data after you've figured out a problem that's worth solving, because God forbid you spend a ton of time with data and find out that there was nothing useful there, or the problem that you can solve with that data actually isn't that inte…”

Josh Green Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 16:59 Josh Green, Panjiva // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

MAD Assertion Supported

$18 trillion worth of goods crosses global borders annually

“18 trillion dollars worth of stuff goes across borders every year.”

Josh Green Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 1:23 Josh Green, Panjiva // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

MAD Disclosure

Panjiva has approximately 2,000 paying customers

“We have about 2000 customers that pay to access the Pangeva platform.”

Josh Green Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 5:48 Josh Green, Panjiva // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

MAD Disclosure

Panjiva spent months building a proprietary customer rating that users rejected

“We had this notion that we would build something called the Pangeva rating, where we would look at a bunch of different attributes of companies based on all the shipping data, and we would, ah, put a rating on that company. And we spent months working on this.…”

Josh Green Mar 3, 2014 ▶ 11:40 Josh Green, Panjiva // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Josh's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
MADLEDGER	Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Novata	1	5	100% 1/1	full record on the MAD Podcast →