Gary Fowler

1 appearance on the record.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 7 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

9 assertions · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 7 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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What the tape says about how Gary argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Fowler: Findo has raised $7M in total capital to date
“Seven million dollars.”
Gary Fowler Mar 18, 2017 ▶ 6:37 EP 602: Findo Raises $7M, Passes 80k Users, 700 Pay $10 to Use AI to Find Their Files Quickly with CEO Gary Fowler

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Fowler: Foxit Distribution Will Put Findo In 6.5M PDF Readers Monthly
“Every PDF reader that Foxit, which is the competitor of Adobe, has, will be including a Finder within it. So that could be up to six and a half million a month.”
Gary Fowler Mar 18, 2017 ▶ 7:06 EP 602: Findo Raises $7M, Passes 80k Users, 700 Pay $10 to Use AI to Find Their Files Quickly with CEO Gary Fowler

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Everything Gary Fowler said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Contradicted
Fowler: Foxit Distribution Will Put Findo In 6.5M PDF Readers Monthly
“Every PDF reader that Foxit, which is the competitor of Adobe, has, will be including a Finder within it. So that could be up to six and a half million a month.”
Gary Fowler Mar 18, 2017 ▶ 7:06 EP 602: Findo Raises $7M, Passes 80k Users, 700 Pay $10 to Use AI to Find Their Files Quickly with CEO Gary Fowler
Disclosure
Fowler: Findo Branded $4M Round As 'Seed 2' To Limit Expectations
“The first part of the investment, the first three million dollars, we understood that that was you know, looked more like a seed round. And the second part of it, we just didn't want that much money. So we were caught, we were, you know, between a series A and…”
Gary Fowler Mar 18, 2017 ▶ 7:52 EP 602: Findo Raises $7M, Passes 80k Users, 700 Pay $10 to Use AI to Find Their Files Quickly with CEO Gary Fowler
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fowler: Findo's monthly customer churn is between 5% and 10%
“It's anywhere between you know, five and 10, but then this thing that's really interesting is that people come back, right?”
Gary Fowler Mar 18, 2017 ▶ 15:10 EP 602: Findo Raises $7M, Passes 80k Users, 700 Pay $10 to Use AI to Find Their Files Quickly with CEO Gary Fowler
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fowler: 12% Of People Spend 15 Minutes Daily Finding Files
“12% of the population at one point in time Takes every 24 hours, 12% of the population has a problem. It takes more than 15 minutes to find something.”
Gary Fowler Mar 18, 2017 ▶ 16:14 EP 602: Findo Raises $7M, Passes 80k Users, 700 Pay $10 to Use AI to Find Their Files Quickly with CEO Gary Fowler
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fowler: Average Person Manages 300,000 Digital Items Across Cloud Services
“The average person has about 300,000 items. Well, the internet, the number of websites in 1996 was only 257,000, and that number is doubling every year.”
Gary Fowler Mar 18, 2017 ▶ 2:21 EP 602: Findo Raises $7M, Passes 80k Users, 700 Pay $10 to Use AI to Find Their Files Quickly with CEO Gary Fowler
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fowler: Findo Bought Its IP From ABBYY For Hundreds Of Thousands
“It was hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
Gary Fowler Mar 18, 2017 ▶ 6:07 EP 602: Findo Raises $7M, Passes 80k Users, 700 Pay $10 to Use AI to Find Their Files Quickly with CEO Gary Fowler
Assertion Supported
Fowler: Findo has raised $7M in total capital to date
“Seven million dollars.”
Gary Fowler Mar 18, 2017 ▶ 6:37 EP 602: Findo Raises $7M, Passes 80k Users, 700 Pay $10 to Use AI to Find Their Files Quickly with CEO Gary Fowler
Disclosure
Fowler: Flint Capital and Foxit backed Findo's Seed 2 round
“Our C two round was with a group called Flint capital. And we also as part of our C two, we had the competitor of Adobe box that actually was one of the major contributors to the part of our C two.”
Gary Fowler Mar 18, 2017 ▶ 6:48 EP 602: Findo Raises $7M, Passes 80k Users, 700 Pay $10 to Use AI to Find Their Files Quickly with CEO Gary Fowler
Disclosure
Fowler: Findo Has 700 To 800 Paying Customers As Of Early 2017
“We've got so in terms of the paying, it's a small percent seven, 800 right now. In, in that range.”
Gary Fowler Mar 18, 2017 ▶ 13:19 EP 602: Findo Raises $7M, Passes 80k Users, 700 Pay $10 to Use AI to Find Their Files Quickly with CEO Gary Fowler
Disclosure
Fowler: Findo Reaches Almost 80,000 Registered Users
“No, I said we have, ah, ah, almost 80,000.”
Gary Fowler Mar 18, 2017 ▶ 13:49 EP 602: Findo Raises $7M, Passes 80k Users, 700 Pay $10 to Use AI to Find Their Files Quickly with CEO Gary Fowler
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fowler: Findo Spent Roughly $100,000 On Paid Acquisition For Early Users
“Yeah, it's a little over a 100,000 dollars, so it actually wasn't that much.”
Gary Fowler Mar 18, 2017 ▶ 17:37 EP 602: Findo Raises $7M, Passes 80k Users, 700 Pay $10 to Use AI to Find Their Files Quickly with CEO Gary Fowler
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fowler: Findo's Average Paying Customer Pays $9.99 Per Month
“The average customer pays us per month is nine 99.”
Gary Fowler Mar 18, 2017 ▶ 3:48 EP 602: Findo Raises $7M, Passes 80k Users, 700 Pay $10 to Use AI to Find Their Files Quickly with CEO Gary Fowler
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fowler: Findo's total team size is 26
“26.”
Gary Fowler Mar 18, 2017 ▶ 12:00 EP 602: Findo Raises $7M, Passes 80k Users, 700 Pay $10 to Use AI to Find Their Files Quickly with CEO Gary Fowler

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Appearances (1)

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EP 602: Findo Raises $7M, Passes 80k Users, 700 Pay $10 to Use AI to Find Their Files Quic Mar 18, 2017 10m
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