The Org

Crowdsourced org charts as a biz-dev dataset

Shaan and Suli want public org charts showing who's who and who reports to whom at big companies. Abreu flags The Org, a startup that raised $10M to crowdsource exactly this, which Shaan thinks is a valuable, chargeable dataset.

“there's a startup came out that raised $10 million to do exactly this called The Org. .com and, um, basically they're crowdsourcing it. So you go, like, I created the one for Twitch.”

Steal thisCrowdsource company org charts and charge for access to contacts and emails.

A startup raised $8M copying the org-chart idea from the show

After Shaan and guest Daniel Gross brainstormed a public, crowdsourced org-chart tool on the pod, a stealth startup called The Org launched doing exactly that and raised $8M from Sequoia and Founders Fund.

“There's actually a startup that came out of Stealth that is doing this after we talked about it. Clearly stole our idea. It's called The Org. They raised $8 million from Sequoia and Founders Fund, and it looks like they're doing exactly this.”