Owler's crowdsourced data is more accurate than Hoover's and Dun & Bradstreet
Jim Fowler · EP 433: $19M Raised, 0 to 1M Active Users for Copmetitive Intelligence Platform Owler with CEO Jim Fowler · Sep 30, 2016 · at 6:01
Jim Fowler is the founder and CEO of Owler. He compares Owler's crowdsourced intelligence platform against traditional business data providers like Hoover's and Dun & Bradstreet.
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“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, you know, hire to try to call every couple of years and try to verify this.”
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