Big news! @ScrapingBee has been acquired by Oxylabs’ Group 🎉 @PierreDeWulf and I (almost) bootstrapped @ScrapingBee from day one, grew to 2500+ customers all around the world, and built a team of amazing people. This is a milestone we could only dream of when we launched ScrapingBee just a few years ago. Oxylabs’s group is the perfect match to take ScrapingBee to the next level 💪 They are not only the market leader, but they know how to move fast. I’m already learning and implementing a ton of things that are improving ScrapingBee, and making me grow as an entrepreneur/operator. I’m incredibly grateful to our amazing team, my incredible co-founder @PierreDeWulf our families, our early customers who trusted us, our investors @tinyseedfund @robwalling @einarvollset Thanks to all the people who worked hard to make this deal happen: our M&A advisors at Discretion Capital Dan,Scott and @einarvollset , the incredible team at Oxylabs, Julius, Jurgis and of course our lawyers. The journey was not easy but it was 100% worth it.

Impressive growth! 13% monthly churn = about 7 months average customer lifetime. At what churn % does "MRR" stop meaning recurring?

I recently stepped down as CEO of @ScrapingBee . @PierreDeWulf and I started ScrapingBee in 2019. We were two engineers with no network, no funding, and honestly no idea what we were doing on the business side. Fast forward to 2025: @Oxylabs_io acquires us. I stay on to help with the transition, and what was supposed to be "just a transition year" turned into one of the best learning experience in my career. Working inside a 500+ person organization taught me things I couldn't have learned running a 6 person team: ✅How to navigate complex decision-making across departments ✅ How to implement the right metrics to have a better view of the business (hello KPI meetings) and act on it. ✅ How to let go of control (still working on this one) and hire/delegate I'm grateful for every bit of it. To the Oxylabs team who welcomed us, to @PierreDeWulf who's been the best co-founder anyone could ask for, and to every ScrapingBee customer and team member who made the ride unforgettable. ScrapingBee is now in great hands with @staskarolis 🔥 Moving forward I will still be involved as an advisor. So here's what's next: I'm acquiring SaaS companies. After 7+ years of building, scaling, and exiting a B2B SaaS, I want to find great products built by founders who are ready to move on — and give those products the next chapter they deserve. If you're a SaaS founder thinking about selling or even just starting to think about it: send me a DM. I'm looking for products in the $500K–$2m ARR range, profitable with a solid customer base. Ideally in the dev-tool / API / data space. If you know someone who fits that description, I'd owe you one. Tag them or send them my way. Let's go 💪

As a French 🇫🇷, I'm also wondering what went wrong 🫤

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I think the opposite. Once you have enough savings (12-24 months) you should go all in and quit your job. For most people in tech the worst case scenario, meaning their startup failing is not that bad. They can find a new job fast. So easy to procrastinate on « side projects » while having a full time job. For most people it stays a side project forever because of how comfortable and addictive a salary is.

Make a B2B SaaS. You won’t need the 100k followers! You won’t need a lot of customers, lower churn…

Good luck everyone 📈📉!

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