They were the most pristine, immaculate contacts I’d ever seen in my life. I just remember looking at them and being completely astonished. I’m not sure why I was looking at her Outlook contacts, to be honest. My wife, I got a peek one night at her Outlook Contacts. It was insanely hard, way harder than it needed to be. I was also in the process of transitioning from a Windows environment to a Mac and I was having a lot of problems transferring the contacts. When I started the business I had just started dating my wife and I had just sold my last company. Jeroen: How did you come up with that idea actually?īart: Well, it’s actually a funny story. Am I right?īart: Yeah, software companies license our APIs and incorporate that enrichment capability into their own apps as well. Jeroen: Then you guys also sell that to companies that want to enrich data in other systems. We stitch together publicly available information about people to help you enrich the data that’s available on the web about those people. Then you guys also use that data, which I assume is all based on publicly available information?īart: Yeah. All the people you know, all in one place and synced to everywhere so you have one address book for the rest of your life. Jeroen: Like what’s in their address book, their Facebook contacts, their Linkedin contacts, their Twitter contact, it all comes together in FullContact right?īart: That’s right. Jeroen: If I understand well, people use FullContact to centralize all the contact data they have. Then we have a wide user base of end users that use FullContact to enrich their own contacts – those that they have on their phone or on their cloud-based contact accounts. Lots of software partners use us to enhance and enrich the data inside their application. For those who haven’t heard of FullContact yet, what do you guys do?īart: FullContact is a cloud-based identity resolution platform that turns partial contacts into full contacts. Jeroen: Hi Bart, it’s great to have you on Founder Coffee. Prefer listening? You can find this episode on: We talk about how his wife’s address book inspired FullContact, how he aligns the 300 brains in his organization, and how he encourages a culture that is about the whole person. He grew up in rural Montana and now runs FullContact from Boulder, Colorado, 30 minutes from the ski slopes. We discuss life, passions, learnings, … in an intimate talk, getting to know the person behind the company.įor this fifteenth episode, I talked to Bart Lorang, Founder & CEO of FullContact, who are on a mission to revolutionize contact data.īefore FullContact, Bart had 3 other companies, respectively in RPG games, web design and enterprise software. I’m Jeroen from Salesflare and this is Founder Coffee.Įvery two weeks I have coffee with a different founder. Bart Lorang of FullContact Founder Coffee episode 015
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