Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart. This is a place where I’ve done over 1,000 deeply researched interviews with entrepreneurs about how they built their companies so that we can hear their stories, get to know them and see, frankly, how much we can learn from them that we can apply to our companies.
I’ve got a tab here in Google Chrome on my screen. It’s a New York Times article that says that investors pumped $1.8 billion into education tech companies in 2014. The interesting thing about that article is where they got that number, a company called CB Insights. Often, when you read in the Times or the Wall Street Journal data about startups or venture capital, you’ll see that they get their data from CB Insights.
Well, it feels to me sometimes like CB Insights is this giant firm that’s been around forever, but it hasn’t been....