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Re:BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees by dangrossman on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @08:21PM (#33185593)
The photo at the top is almost 10 years old, and was from when BW still had a cofounder. It doesn't any more. He probably doesn't have that office any more.
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Re:BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees by nrmitchi on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @08:30PM (#33185678)
Dude you are doing a lot of PR work in this thread
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Re:BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees by ayewo on Thursday October 13, 2022 @02:43AM (#33187987)
That's likely because this is a blast from the past.

Someone mentioned [0] his HN handle up-thread [1] and linked to his complaint in 2015 about spam from BuiltWith [2] where the founder responded with an apology and a way to remove his site from their index.

Once I understood that value of BuiltWith myself, I absolutely felt the same way about Dan's characterisation of BuiltWith as "brilliantly simple and profitable".

0: He likely found about via an email notification from a neat tool he made for just this purpose http://hnreplies.com

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33185733

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10316060

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Re:BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees by xwowsersx on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @09:35PM (#33186129)
Yeah I'm wondering why Dan is replying to so many of these comments. I don't get it :P
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Re:BuiltWith: $14M ARR, no employees by dangrossman on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @08:32PM (#33185690)
Not sure why you'd think that. I right clicked on the photo and did an image search which showed it's from an interview in 2013.
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