Owler refuses to provide data accuracy SLAs to enterprise customers
Jim Fowler · EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with CEO Jim Fowler · Sep 30, 2016 · at 16:55
Owler CEO Jim Fowler responds to questions about whether enterprise buyers demand guaranteed data accuracy.
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“So no, there's no such thing as an SLA. We're very, very clear to our buyers that this data is an estimate.”
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