Marco Scorsi
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Marco Scorsi (Spectre): Bootstrapped Live Market Intelligence
Spectre co-founder and CEO Marco Scorsi tells the origin story: he and co-founder Dom built an early prototype in an Amsterdam kitchen scraping hiring and product data, friends in VC asked to use it, and the proudly bootstrapped company later decamped across Southeast Asia before settling in London. He walks through Spectre's hundreds of alternative signals across companies, people and investors, the new real-time revenue-mentions feed with confidence scoring to handle inflated founder claims, and use cases from GPs winning deals to BDRs, arguing data-driven VC is already over in favor of AI-driven VC — before his connection drops mid-interview.
12 Nov 2025etn. Episode 9
Spectre's Marco Scorsi on real-time private-market signals
Marco Scorsi, bootstrapped co-founder and CEO of Spectre, recounts founding the company in his co-founder's Amsterdam kitchen, a Southeast Asia stint 'before remote was cool,' a COVID return to Europe, and a new London base. He describes the platform's hundreds of alternative data points — hiring velocity, web traffic, career moves, investor micro-interactions — and the newly launched real-time revenue feed that scans the web 24/7 and attaches confidence scores, with use cases for VCs and sales teams. He argues data-driven VC is giving way to AI-driven VC before his stream drops; the hosts try to rejoin him without success.