What’s Hiding Behind Your Cheapest Flight? The Secret World of Proxies

The Jeff Bullas Show

Neil Emeigh is the CEO and Founder of Rayobyte, a ~45 person proxy and data collection company with over 4000 customers and 50 employees. In a nutshell, he helps companies gather data online at scale.

‌Rayobyte is an award-winning proxy provider committed to reliability and ethics. They are the largest US-based proxy provider and offer a wide range of services from data center proxies to boutique data scraping.

‌The first 3 months of business during his college life the company made:

$100k in revenue in year 1

$1.1m in Year 2

$2.9m in year 3

‌Fast forward to today, the revenue is growing rapidly on one of their most important product lines. Neil has grown his company by himself, entirely bootstrapped, and recently turned down an offer to sell it for $25m.

What you will learn

Learn how proxies enable companies to gather large amounts of online data through web scraping while maintaining privacy and avoiding detection.

Understand how using proxies and VPNs can help protect your online privacy by preventing tracking and manipulation of search results, such as flight prices.

Discover the role of web scraping in helping businesses collect valuable data like competitor pricing, product availability, and customer reviews for better decision-making.

Understand the potential of AI in enhancing data scraping by making it easier to analyze and interpret large datasets, although the technology is still evolving.

Learn the importance of staying authentic, focused, and aligned with your passion when building an online business, as illustrated by Neil’s entrepreneurial journey.