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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, …”
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…”
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.”
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.”
$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”
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.”
Owler doubled its user base over the preceding 90 days
“You know, we've doubled our user base over the last 90 days.”
Owler recently signed a data licensing contract over $100K
“We just signed a deal for, you know, a 100,000 dollar plus.”
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.”
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.”
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.”