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Jim Fowler

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2 predictions · 4 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 6 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 4 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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Everything Jim Fowler said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Owler's crowdsourced data is more accurate than Hoover's and Dun & Bradstreet
“Pick five private companies that, you know, go pull the data off of Hoover's, which has done a Bradstreet data and pull the data off of our. And see who wins. We're kicking their butts. our crowd is, is just far more powerful than the few employees they can, …”
Jim Fowler Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 6:01 EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with CEO Jim Fowler
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Owler leverages public data rights, only removing trademarked logos upon request
“And if you're a registered business, we have every legal right to do it. There is one field that we will take off if someone requests and that's their logo. And then we just put in a, you know, a generic one that says this company, you know, will not authorize…”
Jim Fowler Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 21:37 EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with CEO Jim Fowler
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Owler expects to surpass 1M active users by year-end 2016
“You know, we're, we will end this year with over a million active, not registered active users on our system.”
Jim Fowler Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 10:10 EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with CEO Jim Fowler
Disclosure
Owler refuses to provide data accuracy SLAs to enterprise customers
“So no, there's no such thing as an SLA. We're very, very clear to our buyers that this data is an estimate.”
Jim Fowler Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 16:55 EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with CEO Jim Fowler
Insight
$100K to $120K revenue per employee is a solid baseline heuristic
“Basically a good back of the envelope guesstimate on revenue is a 100,000 dollars in, in revenue per employee, maybe a 120,000”
Jim Fowler Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 20:29 EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with CEO Jim Fowler
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Owler has nearly 700,000 active business users on its platform
“We've got almost 700,000 active business professionals using the platform as you mentioned that, you know, help outsmart their competition.”
Jim Fowler Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 2:42 EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with CEO Jim Fowler
Disclosure
Owler doubled its user base over the preceding 90 days
“You know, we've doubled our user base over the last 90 days.”
Jim Fowler Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 8:19 EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with CEO Jim Fowler
Disclosure
Owler has raised a total of $19M in venture funding
“You know, nineteen million dollars.”
Jim Fowler Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 9:39 EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with CEO Jim Fowler
Disclosure
Owler recently signed a data licensing contract over $100K
“We just signed a deal for, you know, a 100,000 dollar plus.”
Jim Fowler Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 11:01 EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with CEO Jim Fowler
Prediction Not publicly verifiable
Owler projects generating $3M to $5M in revenue in 2017
“I'm imagining we're going to do, you know, anywhere between three and five million in revenue and in 26, in 2017.”
Jim Fowler Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 15:19 EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with CEO Jim Fowler
Assertion Partly supported
Owler lists nearly 12M companies, targeting 20M by year-end 2016
“We have almost twelve million companies on and, you know, on, on plan to have about twenty million by the end of the year.”
Jim Fowler Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 22:13 EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with CEO Jim Fowler
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Most Owler data is user-generated rather than scraped
“Most of the data is input by users. We do do some crawling and scraping, but mostly it's around the user input.”
Jim Fowler Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 4:36 EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with CEO Jim Fowler
Disclosure
Owler remained completely pre-revenue throughout 2015
“We're, we were pre-rev in 2015. We hadn't even started even pushing revenue.”
Jim Fowler Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 9:23 EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with CEO Jim Fowler
Disclosure
Owler's entire engineering team is based in India
“Our entire engineering team is in India as well.”
Jim Fowler Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 24:51 EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with CEO Jim Fowler

The other half of the tape: Jim Fowler's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 16 times in 6 episodes on Top Founders. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with Sep 30, 2016 14m
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