How Jim Fowler sold his company to Salesforce for $175M
When I started doing interviews, if there was someone I wanted to reach out to and didn’t know them, I was either out of luck or I would just go to the website that was founded by today’s guest.
I could search anyone’s name or company name and find the person, find their email address and I could reach out to them without any connections.
The company was called Jigsaw and today I’ve got the founder of the company. Jim Fowler is the founder of Jigsaw, a company that he launched in 2003 and sold to Salesforce in 2010.
I invited him here to talk about how he did it and I also want to find out about his latest company, Owler. Owler is a free outside resource for tracking and understanding your competitors. So, if you want to see what people who are competing with you are up to, you just go type in your site name into Owler’s website and they’ll email you alerts.
Jim Fowler is the Founder and CEO of Owler (formerly InfoArmy), which is a free online and mobile source of business information that provides noise-free news alerts and company profiles.
Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart and the place where I’ve done interviews with over 1,000 entrepreneurs.
And you know, when I started doing interviews, if there wasn’t I wanted to reach out to and didn’t know them, I was either out of luck or I would just go to the website that was founded by today’s guest, a site called Jigsaw where I could pretty much type in anyone’s name or even a company name and a position and find the name of the person who was there and find their email address and I could reach out to them and without any connections I was able to make connections and have people do business with me and come on to do interviews–fantastic resource.
The company was called and still is called Jigsaw, actually not so much the company anymore because it was sold. And today I’ve got the founder of the company on here with...
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