CB Insights sees a bigger opportunity competing with McKinsey than Bloomberg
Anand Sanwal · Anand Sanwal, CB Insights // What's Next? (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Sep 14, 2015 · at 16:45
Anand Sanwal, founder and CEO of CB Insights, discusses the company's long-term corporate vision during a Q&A session with FirstMark Capital partner Matt Turck at DataDrivenNYC.
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“I, you know, I really think of us more, to some degree, going after, like, McKinsey, right? So if you think about McKinsey services as a pyramid, there's sort of that bottom layer, which is sort of, you know, what are my competitors doing, and where are markets going, that we think we can do better with data and I think that, You know, scales across, you know, a bunch of big organizations who are always looking into insights into where industries are going, what their competitors are doing, so I think that's where we see just a much bigger opportunity, ultimately.”
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