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How did the Rapleaf incident change the market landscape and create an opportunity for Clearbit?

Matt Sornson

Co-founder at Clearbit

Honestly, very little. RapLeaf got in trouble for doing some shady shit. What changed was the proliferation of public data and the expectation of that data is fair game to be used. People's Twitter profiles, and LinkedIn bio description, all of that. The expectation today is that information, once it's out there, people have access to it, and can see it. That has changed a little bit over time. But I actually don't think there was any market shift between RapLeaf's failure and our coming to life. Actually, I think that that happened the year after we started.

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