Anand Sanwal

11 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 11, 2024 by Anand Sanwal · said 25 times in 8 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Jun 11, 2024 negative
Insight
Sanwal: Education should enforce proven teaching scripts rather than artisanal improvisation
“We still treat education very artisanally, right? It's like, you know, it's like everybody's an artist. Like, oh, Sam likes teaching history this way, and Sean likes teaching it this way, and Anand likes teaching it this way. It's like, hey, just go and, like,…”
Anand Sanwal Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 1:10:58 $100M Founder Reveals The Secret To Making Data Profitable ft. Anand Sanwal
Jun 11, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sanwal: CB Insights Bootstrapped for Six Years Before Raising Capital
“We bootstrapped for six years. I mean, we were, like, we're a very pain-tolerant company, I would say. So we raised after six years.”
Anand Sanwal Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 21:09 $100M Founder Reveals The Secret To Making Data Profitable ft. Anand Sanwal
Jun 11, 2024 neutral
Insight
Sanwal: Recurring data subscriptions create a relentless production treadmill
“Once you start a data business, like you are now on a treadmill, right? Like you have to, somebody's mind a subscription, right? So what Sean did was smart in the sense of like, if it wasn't working, he didn't have to keep doing it. Right. But once you sell it…”
Anand Sanwal Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 29:36 $100M Founder Reveals The Secret To Making Data Profitable ft. Anand Sanwal
Jun 11, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Sanwal: School of Entrepreneuring will not be a VC-backed exit-driven startup
“This is like my significance box, right? And so I might start two, three other companies. Like I'm trying to, we're trying to think of an engine to like build 200,000 companies. So this is like my next thing for Till, like, you know, when I die at my desk, lik…”
Anand Sanwal Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 41:15 $100M Founder Reveals The Secret To Making Data Profitable ft. Anand Sanwal
Jun 11, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
Sanwal: Building an IMG Academy-style entrepreneurship school for 6th-to-12th grade
“What I'm trying, what we're working on is building a school of entrepreneur-ing, so it's a in-person, sixth to 12th grade school, you know, if you know the IMG Academy, right, like, for sports, right, like, the basic idea is, like, people go pro in sports at a…”
Anand Sanwal Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 35:40 $100M Founder Reveals The Secret To Making Data Profitable ft. Anand Sanwal
Jun 11, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sanwal: Early PDF business made around $700,000 in its first year
“We probably made, like, 700,000 dollars.”
Anand Sanwal Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 12:02 $100M Founder Reveals The Secret To Making Data Profitable ft. Anand Sanwal
Jun 11, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sanwal: None of 80 surveyed teachers use proven daily quizzing methods
“Like, it's, like, proven stuff that says, you know, if you want a young person to, like, learn something, you should quiz them daily. Like, it's shown to work, but, like, if you talk, I've talked to probably 70 or 80 teachers, not a single one can, does it.”
Anand Sanwal Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 1:10:32 $100M Founder Reveals The Secret To Making Data Profitable ft. Anand Sanwal
Jun 11, 2024
Disclosure
Sanwal: Profits From Crisis Sentiment Reports Funded CB Insights
“You know, we knew from the get go, mortgages had a lifespan of, like, the crisis had a lifespan, and we knew credit cards would have that too, but it helped us put away enough money and got, you know, me paying the team out of that business versus out of savin…”
Anand Sanwal Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 9:10 $100M Founder Reveals The Secret To Making Data Profitable ft. Anand Sanwal
Aug 26, 2024
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Shaan Puri: CB Insights made $300k pricing a PDF up to $100k
“The best thing that ever happened to us was my buddy was like, no, no, no, you need to charge like 12,000 dollars minimum, 25,000 as your medium, and then have a 100,000 dollar option. He's like, dude, it's a PDF. Like, are you sure? And that's what they did. …”
Shaan Puri Aug 26, 2024 ▶ 12:20 Jesse Pujji on Bootstrapping a +$1B Business + Selling To The Ultra Rich
Mar 3, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Sanwal launched Formidable Fellowship with $500,000 to fund young founders
“We started a non-profit with 500 K. We're given thousand dollar grants to middle and high school entrepreneurs, and so kind of, I just had our first class Had 23 grantees.”
Anand Sanwal Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 1:33 He launched a sweaty startup in high school. Now he'll be a millionaire by 18
Mar 3, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Parr estimates CB Insights generates roughly $100 million in annual revenue
“You started a company called CB insights that is in the range of a hundred million dollars in revenue or something like that.”
Sam Parr Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 2:15 He launched a sweaty startup in high school. Now he'll be a millionaire by 18
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