E996: Clearbit CEO & Co-founder Alex MacCaw is creating god-mode for marketers with Clearbit X, gives insights on dynamic customer targeting, prioritizing profitability over valuation, GDPR’s adverse effect on Facebook & Google, value of aggregated data & benefits of CEO coaching

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

0:58 Jason intros Alex MacCaw
2:26 What is Clearbit?
8:53 What are some Clearbit use cases?
12:48 Benefits of cashflow positivity in terms of fundraising
15:39 How Jason felt about Alex Tew’s Calm investor updates
18:59 GDPRs effect on Clearbit and the industry as a whole
27:37 How did Alex go from anti-coaching to benefitting from a CEO coach?
32:49 Alex’s experience finding a CEO coach from Naval Ravikant
34:22 What did Alex learn about company building from his coach?
38:39 Clearbit’s therapy policy
44:10 Alex’s history before Clearbit
47:16 Jason describes his first business, “Jason’s Hot Tapes”
49:37 What is Clearbit X?
53:26 Alex gives advice to his younger self

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0:58.3	Hey everybody, welcome to this week and Startives, I'm your host, Jason Calicanus, and we've
1:01.3	been talking a lot about the Pegasus movement.
1:04.5	What is the Pegasus movement?
1:05.7	Well I wrote a article at call at callicanus.com, my blog.
1:10.1	And in that article I explained how some of our startups, we didn't anticipate this, were skipping rounds of funding.
1:18.0	How do you skip a round of funding as a startup, right?
1:20.0	Don't you have to raise a seed round a seed, then a series A, or a bridge in between
1:26.9	those, a pre-seed, a post-seed, a pre-series A, a series A, a Bridge, a Series B.
1:33.6	Well, it turns out that if you build a great product
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