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Marco Hojan claims ZoomInfo suffers from poor contact data accuracy

Marco Hojan · Translation Tool Breaks $1.2m Run Rate, 3,000 Customers, New Raise Soon? · Sep 20, 2021 · at 8:26

Marco Hojan, CEO of TAIA, discusses why he is unsatisfied with sales intelligence providers ZoomInfo and Apollo.

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“Just the quality of data. So for example, you get a phone number, you call, and they say the person is not working there anymore, or you get an email, and it should be accurate, but it's not. Just the quality of data, the most important thing that they should have.”

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Assertion Not checkable as stated
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“3000.”
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“So, last year, October, 1.2 million, and before that, 200 case altogether, one .1 plus 201.4 altogether.”
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