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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…”
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,…”
Sanwal: Dave & Buster's enables peer-to-peer gambling on arcade games
“I think Dave & Buster's now allows gambling on, like, Top Shot. Like, you know, Sean and I are playing against each other, like, I can literally bet Sean, like, hey, I'm gonna get 10, and you're gonna get less.”
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.”
Sanwal: Goldman Sachs forced Chubby Brain rebrand to CB Insights
“We tried to sell Chubby Brain, like, the service to Goldman, and they were like, we can't use a service called Chubby Brain, and so and, like, you know, they weren't, it wasn't just them being, like, hoity-toity. They were like, listen, at the bottom of every …”
Sanwal: Fintech, AI/tech, and marketing are top verticals for B2B data
“Financial services AI companies now are big buyers of data tech and then, like, the sales and marketing ad tech world. Like, those are your big three verticals that you want to think about generally for, you know, and there are big data businesses and other ve…”
Sanwal: CB Insights has potential to exceed its $800M valuation
“I think, like, I think this business, especially with generative AI, has, like, a lot of legs to grow. But yeah, I mean, selling for eight hundred million back, you know, then Would have been a fantastic outcome for everybody involved, but yeah, I think we can…”
Sanwal: Data companies must evolve from proprietary sets to workflow tools
“So I think that that's an, a really impressive formula going from data to data co-op to workflow tool, right? I think like that's kind of the future, right? Because you want to get into people's workflow,”
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…”
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…”
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.”
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…”
Sanwal: Early PDF business made around $700,000 in its first year
“We probably made, like, 700,000 dollars.”
Sanwal: Single-source data hacks create fatal supply chain risk
“On collection, the big one is folks sometimes have a hack. They're like, oh, I got to in with this person and they can give me this exhaust data from their company. The problem with companies built like that is like when you lose access to the hack, the whole …”
Sanwal: ZoomInfo built early datasets by manually calling company switchboards
“Henry Shuck at Zoom Info, like they used to call into company switchboards or whatever, and they'd be like, hey, what's Bob's extension? And like, that's how Zoom Info would get, you know, Bob at IT's, you know, number and extension. So a lot of really good da…”
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.”
Sanwal: Sloomoo Institute slime museums generated $30M in revenue last year
“I think I just read that they did thirty million, now they have LA, Atlanta, a couple other places, so I think last year they did thirty million at these slime museums”
Sanwal: Dillo invests $100K per residential autonomous store with revenue sharing
“What these guys do is they put this convenience store, it's, like, Amazon Go style, so it's, you know, one person goes in, they sort of, they badge in Only one person can be in the store. They're on a clock, so they got to get out in a certain amount of time, …”