Andrew: Hey, they’re freedom fighters.
My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixer G, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. I was super excited to talk to today’s guest because he is the founder of Clearbit. Alex McCall. Clearbit is software that we had gotten excited about in the tech community a few years back because what it would do is it would magically take an email address and then tell you about the person behind the email address.
So if somebody filled out a form on your site, if somebody was in your database, whatever it was, you could know more about them. And then it started getting integrated into the software we use. And so suddenly, magically, if I had someone’s contact information, I didn’t have to stumble around to figure out who they were or go to LinkedIn and search it was in the app.
And then they expanded from that to do all kinds of business intelligence, incredible...