Owler founder and CEO Jim Fowler provides forward-looking financial projections for the company in 2017.
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, …”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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”
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.”