Pierre De Wulf is the co-founder of ScrapingBee a web scraping API that grew to $1M ARR in 2 years. Before starting ScrapingBee, Pierre and his co-founder Kevin had quit their jobs to follow the indie dream. 9 months later, their product PricingBot couldn’t generate the traction they were hoping for so they sold the business and pivoted to ScrapingBee.

What we covered in this episode:

Pierre's background; inspiration from his father
Running a business within World of Warcraft
Meeting his co-founder, Kevin
Starting a project for his girlfriend
Leaving his job to work on something for 9 months
Knowing when to stop and move on
Starting and selling PricingBot
How to sell a failed company
Using SEO as a marketing channel
How to write SEO content effectively
Starting ScrapingBee
How ScrapingBee grew so quickly
Taking TinySeed funding

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Growing ScrapingBee to $1m ARR - Pierre De Wulf, ScrapingBee