AI Markets & Business Valuations (w/ Anand Sanwal of CB Insights)

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I talk to Anand Sanwal of the market research company, CB Insights.

Anand bootstrapped CB Insights for 6 years… And now it’s worth over $100 million dollars!!!

He’s a really impressive guy and knows a thing or two about growing a company.

This episode also goes into the current state of the startup market, the importance of defining the right priorities for your business, and why every business SHOULDN’T appeal to every customer.

Check out Anand Sanwal on Twitter at @asanwal.

If you’ve ever wanted to learn about the data that’s driving businesses forward, you’ll love this episode.

In this conversation, you’ll enjoy 3 BIG things:

- The difference between good ideas and bad ideas, and why you need to be able to identify them

- The fiction book that taught Anand the MOST about business

- And the ONE sub-market that’s raising a TON of money right now

Enjoy those 3 things… plus a bunch more ear nuggets along the way.

Also, if you want to launch your own business but don’t know where to start, I reopened my course Monthly1K for just $10. It’s helped thousands of people start their business journey and I know it will help you, too. Head over to OkDork.com/Monthly1K and sign up.

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0:00.0	nishing down and figuring out, okay, I'm just going to build something that's tailor-made and exceptional for this one persona.
0:08.0	And then once I knock that down, I have a vision of what other personas this might apply to and I'll just keep
0:13.9	knocking those bowling pins down over time.
0:16.2	Increasing the quality narrowing the scope is like generally I would say is a good
0:21.3	thing to do.
0:26.6	What is up you beautiful bastards? It is your boy cookie shop,
0:28.0	aka Rabbi Can't Lose, aka no a Kagan.
0:30.9	In today's chat, I talk with Anun-Sanwal of the market research company CB Insights.
0:36.4	What's crazy is we both started our companies around a similar time and now his company's worth
0:41.1	over a hundred million dollars and he bootstrapped it for a lot of that period.
0:44.8	This conversation blew my mind, which I don't really want my mind blown, I want it where it is.
0:49.2	But he had a lot of amazing things to say about how to start a company and how to scale a company and
0:54.3	his company has a lot of really amazing data around VCs around what industries are
0:58.7	hot so you're going to learn about that as well you can check out on and on Twitter at ASA N W A L. If you've ever wanted to learn about
1:07.1	data, starting, and scaling a business, you are going to love this episode. Here's three gigantic
1:11.8	things you're going to take away.
1:13.0	Uno, the difference between a good idea and a bad idea and how to identify that.
1:18.0	Two, the fiction book that taught on the most about business.
1:22.0	Three, the one sub market that's raising a ton of money right now and a lot of other
1:26.7	earnuggets along the way. Before we dive in the show, make sure you're on my email list. That's
1:31.0	OKDork.com. I have a book coming out next year. I can't wait to share it with you, but I don't want you to miss it.
1:36.4	So on your phone, if you're at the gym, if you're in the car, if you're at a bakery, get a cookie, and subscribe at okay dork dot com that's okay doork dot com
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