Web scraping as a business

Kevin Sahin, ScrapingBee

Today’s guest had been hearing about stories of entrepreneurship and finally he took the leap himself. And do you know what happened? He failed. Badly. You’ll hear that story in this interview and how he eventually got to where he is today.

Kevin Sahin is the founder of ScrapingBee, a web scraping API that provides tools to build web scrapers at scale.

Kevin Sahin

ScrapingBee

Kevin Sahin is the founder of ScrapingBee, a web scraping API that provides tools to build web scrapers at scale.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs for an audience of entrepreneurs. And joining me is someone who was working at a company at a good job that while the company was then acquired by another company and the job stayed good, but it was, I wouldn’t say boring is boring.

Fair to say, Kevin. Yeah. And meanwhile, in the back of his head is all these stories of entrepreneurs that he’s been hearing about that he knows now exist in the world. He can’t deny that that is out there and he’s drawn to it and he decides, all right, I’m going to go and take a leap. And he does. And he fails so badly largely because he ends up going for, well, you know, we’ll find out in this story, I’ll tell you this.

Eventually Kevin Seguin created scraping B, which did become a successful business. It helps developers extract data at scale. You probably...

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