Panjiva spent months building a proprietary customer rating that users rejected
Josh Green · Josh Green, Panjiva // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Mar 3, 2014 · at 11:40
Josh Green, co-founder and CEO of Panjiva, speaks at Data Driven NYC about product mistakes in early stage data companies.
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“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. And then we took it to customers, and they said, We don't care what your rating of a company is.”
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