Jim Fowler
- Executive Chairman and Founder at Owler
GetLatka interview
How Owler Built a 3M+ User Crowdsourced Intelligence Platform with Over 100 Customers (Interview with Executive Chairman Jim Fowler)
Jim Fowler (Executive Chairman and Founder of Owler) spoke to Nathan Latka.
Owler figures from the interview
- Free Users (at interview)
- Over 3,000,000
- Customers (at interview)
- Over 100
- Gross Revenue Churn (annual, estimated)
- Below 5%
- Net Dollar Retention (annual, estimated)
- 130% or above
- Revenue Growth (last couple of years)
- 100% per year
“We've got over 3,000,000 business professionals using this now on a daily basis. And it's a crowdsourced platform where you get information about companies that you care about, whether you're a salesperson, a CEO, a product person. And when you give information about it, you get a lot more information back, which is the beauty of a crowdsourced model.”
“We've actually now closed a couple of deals above a million dollars a year with customers. Because they'll... Of course, everyone builds this database. It's a corpus of information that really doesn't have a mirror anywhere else in the market. And so we're able to go out there and in a data as a service or a SaaS model, you know, do these deals where we get multi year contracts to use large data.”
“Jeff said, Hey, any company that is doubling its revenue year over year is doing great. Now granted, it's much easier to do when the number's small, but yeah, for the last couple of years, we've doubled our revenue, but it's gonna be harder to do this year.”