Jim Fowler
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It's a craft.
You have to do it.
You don't do it first.
You don't wake up one morning and become a great writer.
You've got to spend your time.
It's the same thing.
One of the biggest things I hear from wannabe entrepreneurs is, well, gosh, I just had a good idea.
Well, guess what?
That takes a lot of work.
It's not like it just pops into your head as you sleep one night.
You've got to spend time and really start with what you know.
That's what I did.
I knew sales.
I was a VP of sales.
I started thinking about sales problems and, of course, Jigsaw.
I didn't answer your question.
Jigsaw was a gigantic business card exchange that
And what it did is it created a very valuable data set.
And the reason Salesforce bought us is because what's more valuable, the container of the data or the data itself?
And your listeners will now know Jigsaw is data.com, which is, of course, part of Salesforce.